I've got a dell w/ a NEC 4x2.4x etc DVD+ drive in it. I have a pair of Verbatim 2.4x DVD+RW discs that I used for testing video before I put it on DVD+R discs. One of them started giving me problems (player would freeze partway through the video) so I used the scandisc in Nero (it's in the cd speed app, if I remember right) to scan the disc. The surface scan showed ~8% unreadable, mostly in one big region of the disc. A little torqued here because I'd only used the disc maybe a dozen times. I pulled out the other disc and scanned it too. Showed several percent unreadable as well (but not as high) and I'd only used it once! For kicks, I scanned it again and got a different result, unreadable sections showing up in new places and some of the old spots showing ok now.
Is scandisc not working right on my discs, or are dvd+rw discs really this unreliable?
Is scandisc not working right on my discs, or are dvd+rw discs really this unreliable?