Re: Erasing blank CD's quicker or slower to get windows XP to record them better?
From: Raymond J. Johnson Jr. (RayJay_at_nospam.org)
Date: 01/03/05
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:14:30 -0600
"Johny" <johny@noreply.com> wrote in message
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| "Raymond J. Johnson Jr." <RayJay@nospam.org> wrote in message
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| > "NobodyMan" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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| > | On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 03:20:03 -0000, "Antony" <noreply@dot.com> wrote:
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| > | >"Raymond J. Johnson Jr." <RayJ@nospam.net> wrote in message
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| > | >> Antony wrote:
| > | >>> "RobertVA" <robert_c72@nospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
| > | >>> news:OmEb2nE8EHA.1392@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
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| > | >>>>Are you talking about CD-Rs or CD-RW?
| > | >
| > | >>
| > | >> RobertVA's response didn't make much sense, I'm afraid. You should
be
| > able
| > | >> to fast-erase a CD-RW without any problems in reburning to the same
| > disk.
| > | >> I've got backup CD-RWs and DVD-RWs that I do this with fairly
| > frequently.
| > | >
| > | >Thanks Raymond
| > | >
| > | >Seems you are quite confident about using CDRW, the reason I was
asking
| > is
| > | >that I have heard in this forum that some people say they are not
quite
| > as
| > | >"trustwothy" as the other type, eg. the read only type. Due to their
| > | >reusability I rather thought they are superior to the "record once
| > | >versions".
| > |
| > | CDRWs are flaky, whether being used in packet-writing format or being
| > | mastered to. They don't have the reliability track record of CDRs.
| > |
| > | >Especially if you want to make minor adjustments to the files
etc.etc.
| > So
| > I
| > | >was rather hoping that some power users actually use them for serious
| > | >backup.
| > | >
| > | No serious power user should EVER consider backing up data, especially
| > | mission critical data, to a CDRW. Not unless you can afford its loss.
| >
| > I hope I can be forgiven for offending a "serious power user."
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| I don't think you can say something like that and expect to be forgiven so
| easily sir? I think you must think before you speak :). <gring>
|
| Although I'm fairly serious, my powers are limited. I'm in awe of those
who
| don't suffer
| > from that limitation.
|
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| I make simple home data backups to CD-RWs, and have done so as long as
| CD-RWs have been generally available and I've never had a problem with
| good-quality disks. "Mission critical" is not an issue with
| > me, nor with most of the other users here.
|
| Yes but just imagine you were backing up a project you had spent fifteen
| years working on and it was the software to be used in the new
Eurofighter,
| and you accidentally erased it on your CDRW? Then what would you do? You
| would repent for all those years of using CDRW when a simple CDR would
have
| saved you 15 years of hard slog.
|
| My assumption is that if someone has critical data, he also knows that
the
| backup procedure and medium used
| > is also critical, and will proceed accordingly.
|
| Exactly.
| >
I think you're agreeing with me, but it's hard to tell. Anyone who backed up
15 years worth of any kind of work on a CD and then lost it due to a stupid
blunder like accidentally erasing the disk deserves whatever happens to him
as a result. In such situations there are always redundancies and off-site
storage involved, and the level of redundancies is proportionate to the
importance of the data.
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