[78-L] CD-RW

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Thu May 6 13:20:53 PDT 2010


Sharpies designated as safe for CDRs I assume you mean. Water based, not 
the regular stuff

joe salerno
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Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> 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
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