[hero zero]

just a question about how many times you can rewrite digital media before it stops working.....does anyone know?

[ps: I didn't know where to put this thread, so if it's in the wrong place, feel free to move it]

 

[Duncan]

Hi...

I don't know about DVD media, but from something i read somewhere (which I guess might not be totally accurate) it is estimated for CDRW media that you can re-write about a thousand times before it fails

 

[D-EJ915]

MD (Magneto Optical media) can supposedly be written to 1,000,000 times before it fails.

 

[Fastjack]

Quote:

Originally posted by Duncan estimated for CDRW media that you can re-write about a thousand times before it fails

That's what is officially stated but from own experience and a post on slashdot I know that reality is quite a different beast. IIRC they mentioned a maximum of only fifty rewrites before errors occur. Many of my CD-RWs have crapped out before that but I don't have exact numbers. This only regards CD-RWs and I don't know anything about the various DVD-formats (yet).

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

from my experience sony (

) CD-RWs started giving me writing errors after about 20-25th rewrites

like D-EJ915 said, sony claimed MDs can be written 1,000,000 time before it starts to crap out, i havnt been using MDs for that long but i havnt heard a single person talking about their MDs having problem with recording

 

[hero zero]

thanks for all the replies everyone, I really appreciate it...

..I'm just concerned, as I use CD-RW's for my mp3/cd player....

and the fact that my md recorder is getting poor playback [ie. the sound keeps cutting in and out...I think it's the recorder and not the MD...the MD worked fine on an MD deck...] isn't helping too much....

 

[Earwax]

It seems like CD-RWs fail after somewhere around 30 to 50 re-writes (I'm guessing, not counting) They always fail during the write or erase, rather than while playing.

 

[archosman]

I've re-written over a ton of minidiscs and had no problem. The only ones that gave me grief were some old Fuji discs...

 

[Sovkiller]

I think they fail far before 50, I have some ones, specially Princo, and HP old ones, that fail miserably after maybe, 20 times, I mean fail that the data become useless, but not the media, you format it again, and bingo you can use it again, for a while, but the data fails easily, if you continuosly use it.....since then, all is in another partition on the HD...or a cheap CDR....period

 

[CaptBubba]

Quote:

Originally posted by Earwax It seems like CD-RWs fail after somewhere around 30 to 50 re-writes (I'm guessing, not counting) They always fail during the write or erase, rather than while playing.

Odd, I have a couple of 10x Imation cd-rws that have at least that many writes on them. Then I have an old sony cd-rw that is still going strong, even though it only supports 2x write rates.