[vox-tech] CD-RW's Don't Last

[Jonathan Stickel]

I've had quite a bit of trouble with CDRWs myself, so I don't really 
trust them any more.  There are so many factors:  burn speed, burn type 
(iso, multisession, udf), CD-burner, CD-reader etc.  I had some old 4X 
CDRWs that worked OK, but after awhile multisession writes became 
unreadable.  I was about to chuck them whe I decided to test a single 
closed burn: that worked no problem.  About the same time I began to 
doubt the reliability of my cd-burner, so who knows.  I should try again 
with my latest SONY DVDRW drive.

Jonathan


Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I've been using Memorex and Yamaha ultra speed 24X CD-RW's to back up my 
> work files.  They are not lasting.  They seem to die after about 3 or 4 
> or 5 burns.  In fact they've gone so quickly that I at first thought my 
> CD reader was not working  I can't risk not having my work backed up 
> because the CD goes bad.
> 
> Yesterday I tried a CD-R and backed things up and my CD reader could 
> read the back up.
> 
> So has anybody had a problem with ultra speed CD-RW's not lasting?
> Do the slower CD-RW's last longer?
> 
> I had to waste resources, but I'm thinking of switching to CD-R's to 
> back up my work.  Does anybody have an opinion on this?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob
> 
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