Siobhan, I'm archiving quarterly newsletters, for one thing. We went with CD-RW, not knowing about their unreliability (that not being a feature usually when one buys things) because one measly newsletter hardly takes up any room at all and we wanted to be able to add them as we went along. We've now lost most of the images we tried to archive but in the future I guess we'll just have to put a few on each CD-R.
I think we're just not used to thinking in terms of using a huge storage capacity for one or two relatively small items and letting the rest of the disk go to waste. That is what happens when you use a CD-R, correct? The office Backpack CD uses Speedy CD. I find it incredibly easy to use but don't know if it's part of the reliability problem or is it simply the disks that are the problem. My old boss *insisted* on using UDF to save everything because it saved her a few seconds in making the CD. I tried to explain that it was probably better to invest the few seconds (we were archiving, after all) to use a more universally read format but she's a very stubborn young woman (which, to be sure, is how she gets a lot of extraordinary stuff done that would defeat the rest of us). I'm trying to convert those discs onto the universal CD format. At home I have Easy CD and I don't like it at all. Although I've been assured many times that it is easy to use, I find it much more confusing than the office Speedy CD. Alas, the Speedy CD is proprietory to Backpack. Easy CD starts out very easy and goes downhill quickly from there to me. Perhaps it's just that I got used to the drill with Speedy CD first. I will definitely look into Nero Burning ROM. The name alone... How do you think it compares with Speedy/Easy CD? I thought both of those programs have buffer underrun protection. Do they not? Thanks for any tips anyone has. I'm wondering if my New England soul doesn't have to readjust from the notion of "waste" being a crime. It seems so wasteful to use such a small space on a CD-R. On the other hand, what's more wasteful than a defective CD-ROM. I still do not understand how an industry can get away with the sloppy quality control that pervades the computer industry. Do we put up with this sort of "oh yeah, a lot of audio tapes just don't work when you use them" attitude in any other consumer area? It baffles me. Sherry Siobhan Thomas wrote: > > Also, if you are archiving material what is the benefit of using CD-RW over CDR? > > What software are you using for burning? Since the advent of buffer under run >protection I have had zero coasters. > > You might want to look into Nero Burning ROM: > > http://www.nero.com/en/ > > There's a free trial download > > sio > > On 27 Jan 2003 at 17:17, Furry, Tim wrote: > > sherry from duckland wrote: > I'm not happy with the CD-RW technology at all. I'm supposed to be > archiving material (images, especially) onto CD-RW disks for my office. > > It helps to have the feedback that the disks are so often no good. Does > anyone have any explanation for this phenomenon? I'd pay extra for > reliability, for some quality control. A bad disk is far worse than > worthless. > > Cheryl responded: > I've found that if you write to cdr you get much more reliable results > than writing to cdrw. Cdr is more widely compatible. Older cdrom drives > may not be able to read all of cdrws at all. > > Tim: > This is what I do, also. I've been using CDR since about 1995 or so as > an experimental technology in a lab I worked in. It's stable, cheap and > reasonably fast, and transfers well between PCs. If you shop around you > can get blanks for about 25-35 cents; use the blue ones (azure dye) for > best stability. I do database and website backups on them all the time, > and throw out the old ones as they become obsolete. I've *rarely* had > one fail, and those times could have been avoided if I'd kept it in the > case. > > Tim > ___________________________ > Tim Furry > Web Developer > Foulston Siefkin LLP > 316.267.6371 > > ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
