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On Monday, May 6, 2019, 3:24:08 PM EDT, Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Does anyone have knowledge or experience about DVD drives with respect to writing lots of DVDs <br></div><div dir="ltr">without burning out?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I've been producing DVDs of historical primary source material (see, e.g., <br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.worldcat.org/title/moreygraham-historical-letters/oclc/904725729</a>) on my grandfather (see <br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crockett_Graham</a>). In March, I was about to head out to China for <br></div><div dir="ltr">a three week trip, and I was pulling an all nighter producing DVDs of my latest project with 23 of <br></div><div dir="ltr">his diaries. At 6am on the morning that I was leaving, my DVD drive took the usual length of time to <br></div><div dir="ltr">burn a DVD (seems like forever), then it started the verification scan, took a long time and <br></div><div dir="ltr">summarily spit out the DVD, saying it was unable to verify it. I went through 4 DVDs with the same <br></div><div dir="ltr">result. This was from a stack of 100 good quality Sony DVDs that I had been pulling from for quite a <br></div><div dir="ltr">while with no problems.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">At the point that the drive failed, I had been burning DVDs non-stop for well over 12 hours. All <br></div><div dir="ltr">told on this round going back a couple of days, I had burned something like 50-60 DVDs. Previously, <br></div><div dir="ltr">I had used the drive to burn other DVDs.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This is not the first time I have had this experience. Maybe the third. (i.e. bought a new drive and <br></div><div dir="ltr">then had it burn out.)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm using an iMac which I think is about 2014, running MacOS Mojave, with an Apple USB Superdrive.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Googling reviews of drives is pretty useless. They basically tell you they bought the drive, it <br></div><div dir="ltr">hooked up without any trouble, it worked great, and it is built solidly; or something like that. <br></div><div dir="ltr">They don't give long term wear and reliability. They don't say anything about non-stop burning <br></div><div dir="ltr">sessions; just normal easy use with a brand new device. I asked this question of a "genius" at the <br></div><div dir="ltr">Apple Store this weekend, and he didn't really have an answer. He suggested that perhaps I should <br></div><div dir="ltr">buy a less expensive drive, because the internals would be the same. He said Sony made some pretty <br></div><div dir="ltr">good drives, they just didn't have the aluminum case, etc. that the Apple drive has, but would be <br></div><div dir="ltr">half or less the cost. It would be great to have a Consumer Reports "mean time to failure under <br></div><div dir="ltr">continuous burning" and whether there are any drives with different, more durable, internals.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">---------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Chris Hoogendyk<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-<br></div><div dir="ltr"> O__ ---- Systems Administrator<br></div><div dir="ltr"> c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments<br></div><div dir="ltr"> (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center<br></div><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hoogendyk@bio.umass.edu</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">---------------<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Erdös 4<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: <a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hidden-tech.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.<br></div><div dir="ltr">If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members<br></div><div dir="ltr">page on the Hidden Tech Web site.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.hidden-tech.net/members" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hidden-tech.net/members</a><br></div></div>
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