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Three burn attempts, one successful (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

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In retrospect, it did give me time to find the more color-appropriate blue marker.

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[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Since people talk about their experiences with lower speed, I'll chime in with one of my drives that makes CD-RW waste of time at 4x and good burns at 10x.

Anyway, at this point I don't know if I have 2 bad drives or I am cursed. One's Optiarc, another LG.
With the discs I have...

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Optiarc fails to burn DVD-RW at 4x, but works at 2.4x. It fails to burn CD-RW at 4x, but works at 10x. It fails to read a transparent CD (Lorde Virgin album). It now fails to burn one old DVD-RW disc.
LG fails to read '94 remastered CD from Bronski Beat (VLC will play it with lots of errors). When trying to burn some DVD-RW, it started accelerating out of control and cracking the disc. It fails to burn DVD-R.

And now where they work when the other doesn't.
Optiarc reads the Bronski Beat CD, it also burns DVD-R just fine.
LG plays the transparent CD (which someone described as "can it run Crysis" of CDs due to low reflectivity). It burns that bad DVD-RW disc just fine.

Actually, let me make it a table.

Challenge	Optiarc	LG
Playing transparent CD	N	Y
Playing Bronski Beat '94 remastered CD	Y	N
Burning Memorex DVD-R	Y	N
Burning Kaufland DVD-RW	Y	N (chance of shredding the disc)
Burning Verbatim DVD-RW	N	Y
Burning Verbatim CD-RW	P (10x only)	Y

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was looking at M-DISCS, which you're questioning the provenance of on Amazon, and they're pretty pricey... you're adding to the reasons to move to a media server--easily backed up to less-permanent HDDs, but easier to have multiple copies constantly updating.

I'm not in any rush; I just set the lowest setting and take the dog for a walk. Now that I figured it out, that is.

Congratulations on a very dull table! I'm glad you kept it.

Oops. I see we have many professors of dvdology here; I was referring to this fellow:

https://lemmy.world/comment/24024202