Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:53 pm, Cage wrote:William Ballard wrote:On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:44:51PM -0600, Bill Day wrote:I was wondering what the lists advice would be for using a cd-rw as a removeable storage disc? I am running Debian sarge witha 2.4.27 kernel and ked 3.3.2 As always, thanks in advance.I have never used packet writing and always use mkisofs and cdrecord. It is far smarter to get a 1GB flash drive to use as a "removable floppy."The problem with using CDRW for a removable storage device is that itcan only be re written to about 15 times.I've heard different figures on this, but never as low as 15 times. I've always heard more about 100 or so. Have you heard or seen many sources that cite such a low number? Or is it from your experience?
I use them for mondo backups and I can say for certain that it is much more than 15. Maxell cd-rw 650MB.
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You'll notice after some time that the edges of the silver media will start to flake off. I had thishappen to me and my father had the same thing. What will happen is the edge will flake off. This is where the disk volume is written. And when this is corrupted it will render the disc useless. You might be able to read what was already written but it won't write anymore. I had one that got so bad that it wouldn't even read. I wish I had teh original magazine article I read about this in. But when I read it and inspected my cdrw media it was on the money. For the price it's easier to just get cdr's and use them. Or if you definitely need a removable media you're going to be transferring with continuously definitely look into flash drive or compact flash card with card reader. The second will come in handy with digital cameras also. Or like I do. I have all my computers, 2 desktops, a laptop and a pda, networked together with a hub. I haven't needed to use any transfer media in ages.