Re: [PCWorks] Burning CDs
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:15:47 -0600
There I go again leaving out my contractions. "You can very
well use HD's...." SHOULD read "You CAN'T very well use
HD's,..."
-Clint
----- Original Message -----
This always comes up every few weeks and I always say the same
thing; I've had dozens go bad on me and even being in a
climate-controlled environment. The aluminum/metal substrate
can delaminate, ruining them. I never trust them. Like I just
said to David, that's why I use all kinds of backup and storage
mediums.
I don't know of any other way than multi-session to drag data
on a CD, and be able to continue to do it at later dates. I
guess that's considered multi-session. Optical media is much
better than floppies, and (it's) the only way to include
drivers that come with hardware. I don't know of any other
physical direct person-to-person sharing method other than
optical media. You can very well use HD's, and like I also
just mentioned to David; all those flash drives and media cards
are much too sensitive to electromagnetic fields. Get too
close to one, and your data is fried. They are convenient, but
can't be trusted. Also the RMA rate on flash drives are
insane. I have a few, and half had to be returned! I've had
customers put important things on them, and keep their digicam
images on them, just to be lost. That's another thing that was
not ready to be released to public.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://www.OrpheusComputing.com
http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
CDs tend to be very reliable.
The problem here is multi-session disks. I've seen this problem
more
than once, which is why I think it should be avoided.
If you're just talking about sharing data, many better
solutions have
been around for a long time.
David Grossman wrote:
> Nonetheless, CD/DVD media has withstood the test of time, and
> it is still
> very popular. By now, it should have been replaced by
> something better - and
> less flaky.
> David Grossman
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