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Anyone actually use rewriteable media?
superboyac:
I know every time I've tried using CDRW discs, I've found them to be widely incompatible between machines, and always a little frustrating to use. Drag and drop never works as simple as that, the discs become corrupted easily, etc. I think the last time I tried was 2 years ago. I've never tried DVD rewriteable technology, but I assume it's just as bad. When I buy discs (CD or DVD) I NEVER get rewriteable discs.
But I haven't kept up with the times and I was wondering if it was better now, and if anyone actually uses these on a consistent basis now. Flash memory seems to be the standard as far as being able to write/rewrite on a portable media. But CDRW never worked that easily, at least for me. Also, I just got a minidisc recorder, and it uses magneto-optical discs which are very easy and stable as far as rewriting data on it.
Rover:
In short: No
I found simlar problems with RW media. Now with USB hard drives and sticks, why bother?
CD-RW and DVD-RW are dead to me ;D
mouser:
im 100% with rover. with price of blank cd/dvd and with usb sticks, seems not worth the trouble.
Carol Haynes:
I use DVD-RW all the time to video stuff off the TV and then use the computer to edit what I want to keep onto DVD-R or DVD+R formats. That way I can edit my movies etc. without usings two discs each time. Out of hundreds of DVD-RW recordings I have only had one disc go bad - and I recovered the recording using ISO buster ...
superboyac:
That's very interesting Carol. Did you have similar experiences with CDRW? Or is DVDRW much more reliable/stable than the CD's were?
How about this, would you be comfortable to use DVDRW to backup data? I don't mean as your main backup, but as a sort of less important secondary backup?
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