[Hidden-tech] durable DVD writer

[Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography]

Chris, I are you committed to using DVDs? If not, I would highly recommend
NOT using them. They are a faulty medium and not good for archiving either.
Be glad to discuss further...



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On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:24 PM Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> Does anyone have knowledge or experience about DVD drives with respect to
> writing lots of DVDs
> without burning out?
>
> I've been producing DVDs of historical primary source material (see, e.g.,
>
> https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729)
> on my grandfather (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham). In March, I was
> about to head out to China for
> a three week trip, and I was pulling an all nighter producing DVDs of my
> latest project with 23 of
> his diaries. At 6am on the morning that I was leaving, my DVD drive took
> the usual length of time to
> burn a DVD (seems like forever), then it started the verification scan,
> took a long time and
> summarily spit out the DVD, saying it was unable to verify it. I went
> through 4 DVDs with the same
> result. This was from a stack of 100 good quality Sony DVDs that I had
> been pulling from for quite a
> while with no problems.
>
> At the point that the drive failed, I had been burning DVDs non-stop for
> well over 12 hours. All
> told on this round going back a couple of days, I had burned something
> like 50-60 DVDs. Previously,
> I had used the drive to burn other DVDs.
>
> This is not the first time I have had this experience. Maybe the third.
> (i.e. bought a new drive and
> then had it burn out.)
>
> I'm using an iMac which I think is about 2014, running MacOS Mojave, with
> an Apple USB Superdrive.
>
> Googling reviews of drives is pretty useless. They basically tell you they
> bought the drive, it
> hooked up without any trouble, it worked great, and it is built solidly;
> or something like that.
> They don't give long term wear and reliability. They don't say anything
> about non-stop burning
> sessions; just normal easy use with a brand new device. I asked this
> question of a "genius" at the
> Apple Store this weekend, and he didn't really have an answer. He
> suggested that perhaps I should
> buy a less expensive drive, because the internals would be the same. He
> said Sony made some pretty
> good drives, they just didn't have the aluminum case, etc. that the Apple
> drive has, but would be
> half or less the cost. It would be great to have a Consumer Reports "mean
> time to failure under
> continuous burning" and whether there are any drives with different, more
> durable, internals.
>
>
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