Old School burning
Nothing like burning bad after bad disc when the
discs are pricey
Switching to burning DVD+R DLs for backup has
brought me back to the old days when CD-Rs cost $8 and it could take a couple
duds to get a good one.
I've been using
the Lacie Dual Layer DVD burner with Toast 6 Titanium OS X 10.3.9 and Memorex
DVD+R DL discs and an external firewire drive. I had pretty good success at
first, but now I've just burned 4 duds in a row (two getting errors during
writing the lead-out and two hanging the writing right in the
middle).
It is amazing how cavalier I'd
gotten about burning DVDs, having a 99% success rate had just become the usual.
Compound this with the fact that DVD-Rs are now down to under a dollar each in
bulk while Dual Layer discs are still up around $4
each.
I'm not sure if this is a
firewire issue, a media issue or a software issue. Just like the good ol'
days.
Posted: Sun - September 11, 2005 at 10:57 AM
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