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I have a Gateway laptop with a TSST Corp TS-L532a burner (Samsung? and no firmware updates that I can find) that I'm not sure is working properly. Here's the deal: I burnt three coasters using Sony DVD-R's archiving Constantine (DVD decrypter and DVD shrink). DVD decrypter said the burn was sucessful, but I couldn't verify the disc using Nero because it couldn't read it (no info burnt?). I then did the same project using a Maxell disc (RitekG05), which worked, but the verify showed about 0.5% damaged areas, and a few bad ones. The disc did play in my standalone DVD player.
I then started to verify all of my data DVD+R and -R discs, and I have yet to find one that is 100% good (Maxell, Memorex and Verbatim). I even checked a few Imation CD-R's and all of those have damaged areas (yellow, not red). Since I'm heavy into digital photography I like to put the photos on CDR's and DVD's for people and to save space on the harddrive. I called Gateway and they're sending me a new burner just to be sure. But I'm really debating on whether or not archiving data on a DVD is a good idea, seeing as every disc I've made looks like it has errors on it. I have followed all of the 'directions' for making DVD's: DMA on, burning at 4x, all programs up to date, etc. Any suggestions from the pros?
I then started to verify all of my data DVD+R and -R discs, and I have yet to find one that is 100% good (Maxell, Memorex and Verbatim). I even checked a few Imation CD-R's and all of those have damaged areas (yellow, not red). Since I'm heavy into digital photography I like to put the photos on CDR's and DVD's for people and to save space on the harddrive. I called Gateway and they're sending me a new burner just to be sure. But I'm really debating on whether or not archiving data on a DVD is a good idea, seeing as every disc I've made looks like it has errors on it. I have followed all of the 'directions' for making DVD's: DMA on, burning at 4x, all programs up to date, etc. Any suggestions from the pros?
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