10% of CD-R's not readable after 2 Years!

[40oz GRApHire]

I just readed about a Belgian magazine that tested the bigggest & best quality CD-R brands & came to the conclusion that 10% of the CD-R's are unreadable within 2 years. This goes for Mp3 & Data disk also. The magazine suggests that you reburn your CD-R's each year to make sure that the quality of disk remains best. This is just a warning for those that burn Data on disk for life timage usage must think twice or reburn it each year.

I think this is a scam from the CD-R companys towards the public!  

[CRAFTY]

^^^^That's what I was thinking.  

[OpTiCaL]

This is true in a sense..


...before i used to burn up to 100 a week...

...to save time id burn it 12x because thats a safe speed for my recorder...but i found that since a couple come up with crc error..whereby the computer doesnt recognise them...all i do now is to make sure i burn very slowly (4x) and this seems to work (touchwood.)

[Don Seer]

damn thats sucky... what about dvd-r's?

[40oz GRApHire]

damn thats sucky... what about dvd-r's?

Not sure it doesnt say anything about it, probally because its too new to test...

[Watch me while I do my thang]

i think its true, cuz ive also noticed some of my old burned music-cds dont really work anymore, i mean some tracks cant be played anymore or they have annoying noises.

but thats a lotta work, copyin all of em once each year.

[Don Seer]

i'm now glad i'm too lazy to back stuff up, and just keep buying huge harddisks!  

[40oz GRApHire]

i'm now glad i'm too lazy to back stuff up, and just keep buying huge harddisks!  

Lol Im always afraid it will crash  

[Noon Bank$]

Damn..That fucken sucks.

I dont backup shit anyway, I dont think I'd know where to start.

[40oz GRApHire]

I just checked my older Data's & they seem fine so far but I dont trust this at all  !

For the Belgium ppl: het artikel over dit staat in de nieuwe P-Magazine.

[[Stoned]Jesus H. Christ[Wheat]]

I got burned CDs from over 2 years ago and they work great.

[Don Seer]

i got some from 7 years ago that still work fine

but some cheap ones have been a bit iffy :/

[Eidolon_Ravi]

 man I got sum imp project details on the CD-r's.. probbaly i'll need to make a backup...

 Thanx for the info..

[CRAFTY]

For the Belgium ppl: het artikel over dit staat in de nieuwe P-Magazine.

Ah zo...okay, da's cool. Btw, nu we het hebben over de nieuwe P-Magazine, wie staat er op de cover deze keer? Is het de moeite om te kopen? 'k Ben van plan eens een P-Magazine of Ché te kopen maar iedere keer als'k naar de winkel ging waren de modellen niet echt de moeite  

[40oz GRApHire]

For the Belgium ppl: het artikel over dit staat in de nieuwe P-Magazine.

Ah zo...okay, da's cool. Btw, nu we het hebben over de nieuwe P-Magazine, wie staat er op de cover deze keer? Is het de moeite om te kopen? 'k Ben van plan eens een P-Magazine of Ché te kopen maar iedere keer als'k naar de winkel ging waren de modellen niet echt de moeite  

Joke Van De Velde staat op de Cover. Ché heb ik een keer gekocht maar ik vind het te duur voor wat het eigenlijk waard is. Ik hou het bij mijn weekelijkse P-Magazine