Is verifying burned dvd a waste of time?

[RobCur]

I've invested an extra dvd-rom brand liteon, i know it is a pain in the butt and quite a hassle but it is worth if you value your data as much as I do. in the past, i did not do this and a few dvd that wouldn't read are lost forever. an extra burner will do as well, if it fails nero cd/dvd speed test then it's bad. while you're testing you can burn a second one and so forth, make sure not to delete what your burned, move them to a directory and delete them later when necessary.

 

[Jeff7181]

I'll do it if I'm archiving data that I don't want to lose. I'll verify it, then stick it in my other DVD-ROM in my other computer and verify that it can be read.

 

[Baked]

Yes. You don't check the quality of a CD/DVD burn by using verifying, you use KProbe or Nero CD-DVD Speed's Disc Quality Test functions. An example. KProbe only supports Lite-On writers for the quality scanning, while Nero CD-DVD Speed supports Lite-On, NEC, BenQ writers.

 

[boran]

In general a read test is a waste of time imho, I never ever had a disc that was unreadable right after burning, but a quality test might be intresting to do, because if you have massive amounts of PI Faults (lets say over 50K) your DVD wont last very long, in general due to normal usage and dye degradation (and my personal expercience ) the PIF's double about every year, however my personal experience only covers Taiyo Yuden discs which are about the A+++ grade of DVD's in terms of quality.

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: Baked
Yes. You don't check the quality of a CD/DVD burn by using verifying, you use KProbe or Nero CD-DVD Speed's Disc Quality Test functions. An example. KProbe only supports Lite-On writers for the quality scanning, while Nero CD-DVD Speed supports Lite-On, NEC, BenQ writers.

now that is for geeks, too complicated. use speedtest or surface scan for good/bad sectors. fastest and most convenient.
nero cd/dvd speedtest is most basic and it's all you really need.