[Ham-Computers] RE: DVD Media Question

[Ronald KA4INM Youvan]

Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal) wrote:

> Any "RW" format has many caveats and I generally avoid them.  It's not worth
> the hassle if something goes "wrong" and I have to use data recovery tools
> to recover the data on the disc.  Less likely to occur with write-once DVD's
> as the media is inheirently more stable (as well as the recording format).

   I think you are referring to the UDF format, but many people use DVD-RW's and 
CD-RW's just like a DVD-R or a CD-R.  If it doesn't compare favorably, we erase 
it and write it again, possibly at a slower speed.  Why avoid *-RW's?
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