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Possible to write to a different area of CD-RW?

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Yossarian

Lifer
I have one CD-RW that I use to keep drivers on. But I'm concerned that after many rewrites the cd will fail. Is it possible to write the data to a different track on the cd, instead of just writing and rewriting over the same area?

 
CDRW's have a life of something like 1000 rewrites. Unless you're deleting and updating files on a daily basis, it's probably going to last you quite a while. Additionally I believe that unless you actually format the disc, when you "delete" a file, it doesn't make the space actually available as you'd expect. It removes the entry from the table of contents, but newer files don't rewrite that space like they do on a hard drive. It uses the next unused space on the disc.
 
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