Posted by robinjoan on 12/14/06 12:38

Question I have, is why all 7 disks should become write protected
at the same time. One thing did come to mind, and that is that I
recently installed Roxio 9. It is possible that this could have had
an effect on the disks.





On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:00:51 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob) wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:32 GMT, "Stuart Miller"
><stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>DVD-RW was never intended to be a substitute for a hard drive, as they have
>>a very limited lifespan.
>
>Tell me. I got at most 10 erasures from Verbatim 4x DVD+RWs. Others
>have gotten even fewer. And that's with 2.4x burns.
>
>Fortunately they have gotten relatively cheap, I can get Verbatim 4x
>at rima.com for around 75 cents in 100 lot. If I manage to get 10
>burns, that's 7.5 cents per burn, which is a lot cheaper than DVD-R
>which is 28 cents per burn (Taiyo Yuden 8x at rima.com).

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