Average rewrite and lifetime of Media

#1 July 18th 03, 08:27 PM

Anyone knows how many times I can write on normal CD-RW media? When will it
cause serious failures to do so and what is the average lifetime? Does this
depend on the manufacturer of the media in use? Where can I find
information about this online?

Thank you

#2 July 18th 03, 08:39 PM

No good answer to this. There are HS RW dics around that won't even write
twice. Currently the Ultra-speed (24x) verbatim media is very good. HS media
is notoriously poor and unreliable, but TDK and Sony have been good. Here
are some error-rate tests:
http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread...threadid=60316

high error-rates indicate a disc that is hard to read.

"Andreas Mitsis" wrote in message
...
Anyone knows how many times I can write on normal CD-RW media? When will
it
cause serious failures to do so and what is the average lifetime? Does
this
depend on the manufacturer of the media in use? Where can I find
information about this online?

Thank you

#3 July 19th 03, 05:33 AM

Andreas Mitsis wrote:

Anyone knows how many times I can write on normal CD-RW media? When will it
cause serious failures to do so and what is the average lifetime? Does this
depend on the manufacturer of the media in use? Where can I find
information about this online?

Lifetime and reliability of CD-RW depend on the brand/manufacturer, just
like with CD-R. But there doesn't seemed to be any fast and easy answer
to that question.

Some info he

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-12
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-5

(Note: Don't be surprised if the info in the cdr-faq is "quite dated"
and has "significant errors" [Mike Richter])

Excerpts from: http://www.verbatim.com/news/news2.cfm?art_id=47

The latest release of Orange Book Part III Volume 3
details the specifications for Ultra-Speed CDRW media.

Verbatim DataLifePlus 16x-24x CD-RW discs deliver more than 1,000
overwrites and an archival life of more than 30 years

Verbatim backs the quality of its complete line of DataLifePlus
media with a lifetime warranty.

Watch out for arguments along these lines:

"cd-rw is less reliable than cd-r, thus cd-rw is unreliable"
"cd-rw is the least reliable media, thus cd-rw is unreliable"

(There are many in these cdr groups who swear by the above.)

#4 July 19th 03, 07:34 AM

Watch out for arguments along these lines:

"cd-rw is less reliable than cd-r, thus cd-rw is unreliable"
"cd-rw is the least reliable media, thus cd-rw is unreliable"

(There are many in these cdr groups who swear by the above.)

walking on eggshells eh?

#5 July 19th 03, 11:48 AM

In message , GMAN
writes

Watch out for arguments along these lines:

"cd-rw is less reliable than cd-r, thus cd-rw is unreliable"
"cd-rw is the least reliable media, thus cd-rw is unreliable"

(There are many in these cdr groups who swear by the above.)

walking on eggshells eh?

I've seen a Philips employee quote that poorly matched erasable media
with the drive it's in will have a rewrite lifetime of 10.
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#7 July 21st 03, 06:22 AM

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Gene pool filter broke again ?

#8 July 21st 03, 09:32 PM

#9 July 23rd 03, 01:25 AM

Sunny wrote (7/20/03):

Gene pool filter broke again ?

How many assholes do you have, Asshole?

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Date: 6/23/02

It has been in my killfile for ages

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wonder if smh will read this, seeing as I have him kill filed

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For **** sake, change your pills.
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#10 July 23rd 03, 09:20 AM

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:48:09 +0100, William Leech
wrote:

I've seen a Philips employee quote that poorly matched erasable media
with the drive it's in will have a rewrite lifetime of 10.

10 what: days, months, years?

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