Burning Copies of Copies

[Chewy]

that's what my tdk and fuji used to be, no more!

[SkaarjMaster]

http://www.rima.com/

All future quality (music, backup, movies,...) CD-Rs or DVD+-Rs for me will be purchased from there. I'll still use TDK Data CD-Rs for quick storage and transfer of stuff from one place or another though.

[tigerman8u]

Iknow but memorex has never given me a coaster yet. combination of media, burner and dvd player makes or breaks the success rate

[Chewy]

Iknow but memorex has never given me a coaster yet. combination of media, burner and dvd player makes or breaks the success rate

include software(shrink, nero, dvdc,etc)

a very good test I have found to check the reliabilty of the process
is make a copy on the fly of your backup.

[Chewy]

after 100 copies with the criteria you mention using OTF, let us know the % of success.

Well I have passed that point, my collection is partially loan/kid proof.
The last 40 or so disks I used common sense, cleaned the original backups,
if there were any scratches or tier 2/3 media, I used shrink to rip
to hard drive, ~10 disks, the other 30 were Copy on the Fly at 4x,
standalone masters optical drives. Success Rate ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!
Scratched/scuffed disks or bad media are now disposable. I would have saved myself a lot of trouble by trashing the originals and using better
media to burn the master backups and never using them. The way
people treat DVD's, they might as well use the biodegradable ones,
that's all they deserve.

[LT. Columbo]

yes some people shouldn't be allowed to handle dvd's. glad you were successful. but my system isn't the same as yours, nor is my writer or media. i won't be trying OTF any time soon, but have fun

[Chewy]

I'll try to make a system builder out of you yet!
regards lt

[LT. Columbo]

that would definetly be a project

[Chewy]

That's the easy part, building systems, if you can handle this stuff, you could
do that, now learning to fix broken systems is the real challenge.

[LT. Columbo]

i just don't have the time. between my work and my car and my wife. i don't have the time

[SkaarjMaster]

Wait 'til you have kids.

[LT. Columbo]

i won't have time for them either...