Thomas Schmitt wrote: > To my experience, degradation of once verified media is rare, even long > after they have been written. More probable is drive degradation. > (With re-usable media stored for a long time, there is an increased > probability that they fail to take new data. But that's a different > problem.)
I always "verify" after burning a disk, but the nature of the CD/DVD implies degradation of material. The speed (and lense power) influence the quality of the writing, of course also the materials used and their quality play role. But still a disk is very unreliable medium for data storage over long period of time IMO. regards
