Since people talk about their experiences with lower speed, I’ll chime in with one of my drives that makes CD-RW waste of time at 4x and good burns at 10x.
Anyway, at this point I don’t know if I have 2 bad drives or I am cursed. One’s Optiarc, another LG.
With the discs I have…
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Optiarc fails to burn DVD-RW at 4x, but works at 2.4x. It fails to burn CD-RW at 4x, but works at 10x. It fails to read a transparent CD (Lorde Virgin album). It now fails to burn one old DVD-RW disc.
LG fails to read '94 remastered CD from Bronski Beat (VLC will play it with lots of errors). When trying to burn some DVD-RW, it started accelerating out of control and cracking the disc. It fails to burn DVD-R.
And now where they work when the other doesn’t.
Optiarc reads the Bronski Beat CD, it also burns DVD-R just fine.
LG plays the transparent CD (which someone described as “can it run Crysis” of CDs due to low reflectivity). It burns that bad DVD-RW disc just fine.
I was looking at M-DISCS, which you’re questioning the provenance of on Amazon, and they’re pretty pricey… you’re adding to the reasons to move to a media server–easily backed up to less-permanent HDDs, but easier to have multiple copies constantly updating.
I’m not in any rush; I just set the lowest setting and take the dog for a walk. Now that I figured it out, that is.
Congratulations on a very dull table! I’m glad you kept it.
Oops. I see we have many professors of dvdology here; I was referring to this fellow:
Since people talk about their experiences with lower speed, I’ll chime in with one of my drives that makes CD-RW waste of time at 4x and good burns at 10x.
Anyway, at this point I don’t know if I have 2 bad drives or I am cursed. One’s Optiarc, another LG.
With the discs I have…
old text
Optiarc fails to burn DVD-RW at 4x, but works at 2.4x. It fails to burn CD-RW at 4x, but works at 10x. It fails to read a transparent CD (Lorde Virgin album). It now fails to burn one old DVD-RW disc.
LG fails to read '94 remastered CD from Bronski Beat (VLC will play it with lots of errors). When trying to burn some DVD-RW, it started accelerating out of control and cracking the disc. It fails to burn DVD-R.
And now where they work when the other doesn’t.
Optiarc reads the Bronski Beat CD, it also burns DVD-R just fine.
LG plays the transparent CD (which someone described as “can it run Crysis” of CDs due to low reflectivity). It burns that bad DVD-RW disc just fine.
Actually, let me make it a table.
I was looking at M-DISCS, which you’re questioning the provenance of on Amazon, and they’re pretty pricey… you’re adding to the reasons to move to a media server–easily backed up to less-permanent HDDs, but easier to have multiple copies constantly updating.
I’m not in any rush; I just set the lowest setting and take the dog for a walk. Now that I figured it out, that is.
Congratulations on a very dull table! I’m glad you kept it.
Oops. I see we have many professors of dvdology here; I was referring to this fellow:
https://lemmy.world/comment/24024202