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Offline mikeymikeTopic starter

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rewritable CDs
« on: June 02, 2004, 05:05:16 PM »
How many times can I erase and re-use a rewritable CD, practically speaking?  I guess it depends on the age and quality of the media, but what are peoples' experiences with this?
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2004, 05:30:20 PM »
Well I have about 10 or so that I use to burn video cd movies to and watch them on my DVD player. I use the same two for that. They are about 3 years old now. I'd say I have over 100 burns on those two disks. The others I add and take files from every day to move things from my Amiga, and now my Pegasos from the PC. These are low qual GQ brand too.
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2004, 05:43:58 PM »
Wow, cool :-)  I was expecting a number like 10 erases/rewrites.  That's perfect.  I needed a reasonable solution to dump a quick bit of software on a CD-RW for a customer, and bought 10 CD-RWs for that purpose (I use CD-Rs normally for backup stuff).
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2004, 05:48:47 PM »
i have used my TDK one about 50 times :-)

Remember -dont copy audio( as in CD player ) to it :-P
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2004, 06:05:11 PM »
I know someone whos done over 60 successful writes, just bear in mind that scratches will drastically reduce the reliability ;-)
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2004, 06:23:47 PM »
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LinchpiN wrote:
Remember -dont copy audio( as in CD player ) to it :-P


I wasn't planning on it, but why?  Because some CD players can't read CD-RWs?
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2004, 07:34:35 PM »
I recall it is something like 1000 times of erasing and rewriting. I've six years old CDRWs and they are still fully operating.
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2004, 08:56:38 PM »
I have 2 CD-RW's and using them since 2001. They're from VERBATIM and on the back they guarantee that they can be written about 1000 times. That's what i know.

And by the way, isn't erasing those CD's something like "writing" on them again? ie re-ordering the magnetic structures to empty state. Guess that would reduce it's capacity to 500 real useful writes, or not?
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Re: rewritable CDs
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2004, 09:18:43 PM »
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CaptainHIT wrote:
And by the way, isn't erasing those CD's something like "writing" on them again? ie re-ordering the magnetic structures to empty state. Guess that would reduce it's capacity to 500 real useful writes, or not?

Burning a CD has nothing to do with magnetism.

How it *does* work.
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