[78-L] CD-RW

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 08:35 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
>I have CDRs (not CD-RWs) from much earlier in the CDR era which read
>fine, despite all the warnings posted about their unreliability. I even
>put sticky labels on some before I knew better. But there are too many
>verified instances of failure to ignore it all. No doubt the ones that
>fail first are the ones that would be hardest to replace.

I've got some church sermon CD's I bought in 2003 & 2004 (with the 
church label on them) & a lot of those have gone unreadable. I throw 
them away as I get to them. I'd never put a label on a disc. Sharpie 
or inkjet printable media only!!

>I see from your post that you must have some other means of storage,
>otherwise you would not be able to reburn.
>
>joe salerno

Yep, CD's & DVD's with no labels on them plus 2 external hard drives.


>Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> > At 06:31 PM 5/5/2010, you wrote:
> >> Use for what? They are not as stable as write once discs. Must be
> >> protected from light. Good for moving around or temp use, like a test
> >> burn. I wouldn't archive to RW.
> >>
> >> joe salerno
> >
> > I've got 10 Memorex 4x CDRW's that I burned as audiodiscs 3 years ago
> > that still play back fine. If one failed I'd just burn the same files
> > to a normal CDR disc.
> >
> >
> >> David Lennick wrote:
> >>> Anyone ever used TDK CD-RW discs? My local bargoon store had a
> >> box of ten for $10. These are 1-4x so they'd be fine on my
> >> stand-alone..I never tried rewritable discs because any I found
> >> were always 8x or higher.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> dl