[Coco] Optical media burn rates

[Steve]

When it comes to archiving data, always burn at the lowest speed your 
media/drive can handle.

Why? A fast rate "burns" a lower quality pit into the recordable 
media.  (And these pits can disappear after a bit of time or heat.)

Studies have shown that 100 year archive media burned at top speed of 
optical drive will only last 18 months!  That's while using high 
quality archive media and not the cheap stuff you get at discount store.

For me, I only buy high quality archive media on-line from a trusted 
dealer.  Since I get my disks about once a year in large quantity, 
the price is about the same as the cheap disks.  (That way I know 
it's good recording be it a once shoot use disk or an archive of my system.)

Just something that I pickup while I was working at THQ and part of 
the team that created the DVD standard.

Steve Bjork

At 07:38 AM 11/9/2008, you wrote:
>Hmmm, got some HP CDRs here, on a few burners I can burn at full 
>rated speed, but on others, it has to be at a slower than rated 
>speed or else some CD-ROM drives have issues reading them. Wonder if 
>that is the same type of deal.
>
>-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.