[Hidden-tech] durable DVD writer

[Chris Hoogendyk]

I'm open to suggestions.

I want something that I can put an informative label on the media and have it in a book like case 
that I can design a cover for. It should both be able to sit on a book shelf in a library and be 
uploaded to their digital archives. It should also be relatively "universally" accessible.


On 5/6/19 3:38 PM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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>
>     Chris Hoogendyk
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Chris Hoogendyk

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    O__  ---- Systems Administrator
   c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments
  (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center
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<hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu>

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Erdös 4