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I used to buy 25 packs of DVD-RW's at Office Max for $7.99 on sale but now all the stores I look in and the Sunay newspaper ads don't have DVD-RW's anymore. I just looked on google and seen internet sites to buy them from so have most retail stores stopped selling them??
DVD-RW often used by students because of capacity and the ability to update and/or add files. Thumb drives are now the preference for this type of use, as they are bigger, and faster. Think you are seeing the supply/demand scenario playing out.
I was going to say what narfcake said. Buy dvd+r's instead of -r. Can get them for 20 dollars for a 100 pack on newegg.com. I buy verbatim x16 which is fast enough for me.
RW's are far less reliable than R's, they shouldn't be used for permanent storage. For that matter no optical media should be used for permanent storage unless it's backup for the backup. Don't use them unless you have a need.
The only use I've found for them is testing purposes on authored DVD's where I was just burning video samples and menus for viewing on a TV.
RW's are far less reliable than R's, they shouldn't be used for permanent storage. For that matter no optical media should be used for permanent storage unless it's backup for the backup. Don't use them unless you have a need.
The only use I've found for them is testing purposes on authored DVD's where I was just burning video samples and menus for viewing on a TV.
Urban legend. The danger is that you will not be able to find or buy a drive that can read the data in the future, not that the data will no longer be readable.
Like any media, it must be stored under proper conditions, so let's not start a spitting contest about "I burned the coaster for my tea glass last month, and now I can't retrieve the data on it", so you're wrong.
Urban legend. The danger is that you will not be able to find or buy a drive that can read the data in the future, not that the data will no longer be readable.
Manufacturers' estimated recorded life span (years) Optical media longevity
CD-R - 50-200 years
CD-RW - 20-100 years
DRV+/-R - 30-100 years
DVD+/- RW - 30 years
Like any media, it must be stored under proper conditions, so let's not start a spitting contest about "I burned the coaster for my tea glass last month, and now I can't retrieve the data on it", so you're wrong.
I can't remember the last time I burned a 'coaster.' Today's burners are awesome.
I remember buying an external burner that used a serial port or something. The burn speed was like 15 minutes and it burned a lot of coasters.
The later internal ones I had worked, but you had to burn at a lower speed to alleviate coasterdom.
I can't remember the last time I burned a 'coaster.' Today's burners are awesome.
I remember buying an external burner that used a serial port or something. The burn speed was like 15 minutes and it burned a lot of coasters.
The later internal ones I had worked, but you had to burn at a lower speed to alleviate coasterdom.
Burn proof, which is actually an acronymn (of course) for (Buffer Under Run Error Proof) was the greatest invention since sliced bread.
My first burner was a 1X CD burner (that's a ripping 150K/Sec), nor was a 'slower speed' and option, 1X was wide open and you had to make sure nothing at all was being done on your computer, even to the point of disabling the screen saver, as anything would cause a buffer under run which equals a coaster. But the successful burns are still readable.
Sorry guys what I meant to say was DVD+/-RW because that's what I used to get on sale at ofice depot several yrs back but now don't see RW's in the stores like I used to.
So I just picked up a 50 pack of DVD+R's for $12 at Staples and wondering is there any quality advantage/disadvantage between RW's and R's.
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and you had to make sure nothing at all was being done on your computer, even to the point of disabling the screen saver, as anything would cause a buffer under run which equals a coaster. But the successful burns are still readable.
