Anyone scan PIE/PIF errors in DVD media anymore?

[PliotronX]

So my old standby BenQ DW1655 bit the dust after coming out of storage for some fun at the office and I bought a TSST Corp 24X which from experience with Samsung 16X burners should be pretty decent and I hope has some scanning abilities. One thing I miss of the DW1655 is the ability to over burn +R to around 4600MB. It seems that most media is rebranded CMC these days but I'm glad JVC is keeping Taiyo Yuden around. I wasjust curious because before the BenQ died i scanned some discs burned with external Asus USB burners and they are horrible at 8X bit decent at 4X. We have these Zboxes at work without internal bays so with a USB 3.0 adapter and good media ill be burning five discs in the time it takes my coworkers to do one 😀

 

[bononos]

I still do, on new spindles to test the media and infrequently on old disks to check up on them.

 

[code65536]

I still do!

Except these days, it's BD-R media, not that ancient DVD stuff. 😛

I burn optical discs mostly for backup and data archiving (for this reason, I always burn at CLV, so 6x for DVDs, 4x for BDs, even if the media and drive are rated for higher), and I always do a quality scan afterwards to verify that the burn is good.

The ability to scan is the reason why, a decade later, I'm still a LiteOn fan.