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racketboy - Sep 11, 2003

		racketboy		Sep 11, 2003
			I'm sure a lot of us here use many CD-Rs and/or DVD-Rs for many purposes. I'm also sure almost all of us would like such media to last a while. The last few days I've noticed some ads, articles, and posts about media going bad quickly and new, professional strength media. Here's a story on Slashdot about media going bad... Here's Imation's new product lineup that is suppos... And here's some pages with info on TDK's Armor lin... What's everybody's thought's on this?

		it290		Sep 11, 2003
			Eh, I dunno, I generally use cheap media and I have discs that I burned 3-4 years ago that still read fine. I couldn't say if they're 'error-free' or not but I can get all the files off of them no problem. Actually, I think the burner and speed used is just as important as the media... but I don't expect any disc to last forever anyway. When burning CDs for use on consoles though, good media definitely seems to help with loading speeds and bootability though.

		racketboy		Sep 11, 2003
			Yeah overall, my Fuji's last pretty well. But I think I've had a couple get messed up (out of the 100s I've burned). I think how you take care of them is a major thing. (The Imation link talks about this)