Currently using high speed Memorex 10x cdrw discs. Been using programs like InCD and DirectCD where you can use the cdrw's like simple floppies, just add/delete repeatedly. I usually fill it up before I burn the entire contents to cdr's. But i've noticed that after about a dozen or so of 'fill ups', the cdrw disc just doens't load properly anymore. It starts taking the drive longer and longer to read the disc, until to the point where it can't read it at all.
I just thought the lifetimes of cdrw's was a lot more than just a dozen add/erase cycles. I know that cdrw discs work due to phase change technology, where the data is recorded in chemical compounds within the disc layers itself. Maybe the materials lose their phase-change characteristics after a certain number of read/write/erase cycles. Opinions anyone?
I just thought the lifetimes of cdrw's was a lot more than just a dozen add/erase cycles. I know that cdrw discs work due to phase change technology, where the data is recorded in chemical compounds within the disc layers itself. Maybe the materials lose their phase-change characteristics after a certain number of read/write/erase cycles. Opinions anyone?
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