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DV-RW vs CD-RW
Name: Kurt Date: December 16, 2003 at 19:29:19 Pacific OS: Win2k CPU/Ram: P3/512
Name: Stuart Date: December 16, 2003 at 19:39:08 Pacific
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What's so flacky about CD-RW. Never had a problem with them.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: Kurt Date: December 17, 2003 at 09:16:02 Pacific
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CD-RW's are notorious for loosing and or corrupting the data on them.
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Response Number 3
Name: Stuart Date: December 17, 2003 at 12:14:19 Pacific
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Are they? I have been using CD-RWs for a few years now and have never lost or had data corruped on a CD-RW. Never heard or read anything that would suggest they are prone to losing or corrupting data. Show me something that suggests that CD-RW are notorious for losing data.
What they are prone to is people failing to understand the difference between CR-R and CD-RW, ISO 9660 format and UDF format. Used properly they are more reliable than any magnetic medium.
Stuart
Stuart
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Response Number 4
Name: Kurt Date: December 17, 2003 at 12:29:46 Pacific
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Yes, they are known to have issues like that. I've had several go belly up on me and just flat out refused to work (read or write)anymore. I never use packet writing.
If you look in any computer forum that specializes in CD issues, you will find tons of posts about the poor quality of re-writable discs. One such forum is http://www.cdrom-guide.com
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Response Number 5
Name: XxxFrancisxxxUSA Date: December 18, 2003 at 11:07:42 Pacific
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What a crock.
Tons of posts versus millions of sales.
All hardware has issues. And even Rolls Royces break down.
Crap, a Concorde crashed! Who'd have expected that!
CDRW fail more than regular cd roms as they have two lasers and that gives them an automatic twice as likely chance of failing! Same with DVD roms. Few posts on here with bad DVD players that read cd's. 'Cause they have a DVD laser, and a CD laser. Twice as likely!
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