DVD+RW disc testing - how often do they go bad?

dboy

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May 17, 2001
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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?
 
Aug 27, 2002
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I don't know about +R media at all, since -R has a greater range of devices with support for it(and the media is cheaper), but I do know -RW disks are good for apporx 1000 burns before failures start to occur. I would think the +R media should be reletivly the same. You may have just gotten one bad disk.