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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1838)	8/1/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Len	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I believe the risk of a failure of one drive is very small compared to the risk of two drives failing at the same time. I think you meant it the other way around. I'm sure everyone probably figured it out, but I needed to poke fun at someone today. Sorry, Z. You know "I love you , MAN!!." I know, I can't have your beer. Incidentally, I have had little trouble in writing 600+MB of data to CD-R, using a 2X-6X Sony CD-R. I will tell you that I have found that if I'm having trouble, and ending up with coasters/frisbees, I change the write speed to 1X. Anytime I have, that has solved the problem. And, while one of this thread's participants (I don't remember who) mentioned being able to run Quake while writing to a CD-R, I find that, again, if I'm having any troubles, I will walk away and let it do it's thing without trying to multitask until it is finished. I have also found a large disparity in the quality of various brands of CD-R disks. For instance, in my experience, while I have no trouble recording with Imation disks, no Mitsumi CD-ROM drive will read them. Don't know if it's unique to my Sony writer, or to Imation disks. Would be interested if any others have noticed that. Other brands of disks have been widely different in their reliability rates for me. Fuji, for instance, has a failure rate of at least 20% for me, yet others say they love them. I guess there is a lot of factors involved. There are other brands that I regularly have failures with, and others whose "coaster" rate is near nil. I'd like to know if that is others' experiences. Regarding backup, I remembering posting somewhere, maybe here, that I use a second HD as a backup drive, that is backed up to every night. I then backup to removable media once per week. Forgive me if I am repeating myself.