Kodak Gold CD-R's going bye-bye?

From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 24 07:40:01 2001

> Sometimes I do buy a spindle of the cheap junk just to see who made
> it that week. The Imation stuff (yes, Imation, the company that used
> to be the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company that
> made top-name
> media for years) was crappy CMC Magnetics junk according to
> the ATIP code

Can we define "junk" for the purposes
of this discussion?

Is it junk because:

(a) you make more coasters than you would
    believe is reasonable
(b) you find a higher failure rate when trying
    to read them two years later than you
    think is reasonable
(c) you don't believe that it will last the
    twenty years (or whatever they claim)
?

Given a CD-R (blank or already written),
what tool(s) do you use to determine the
characteristics on which you are
judging it and what are "good" and
"bad" things to look out for?

Personally, I have only had one read-failure
in several hundred burns. That's not counting
a few coasters along the way - this was a
partial read-failure some six months to
a year later when I came to use the CD.
I have no idea whether the data was ever written
correctly (since EasyCD Creator - which
came with the drive - does not seem to have
a read-after-write check). Since then
I have performed a comparison-against-source
step after burning any CD. Fingers crossed, no
further failures so far.
  

Antonio

 
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