latecomer said:thanks for all the efford maclipper. it's really useful for newbs like me. i don't even understand what these terms mean, PI, jitter etc. have to go read up. but like u said, i'm more interested in making sure the data can be accessed like say 6months to 1 year down the road.
i dunno if it's just me, but my normal cd-rs i burn have easily lasted me more than 1 year (i'm saying i can still read the data, dunno about any graphs), and that's why i'm still so hesitant about buying a dvd burner. hopefully this thread will allay my fears?
To make things really simple for casual readers, you can roughly guage the quality of a disc burn by its Quality Score shown at the bottom right corner of the screen shot.latecomer said:thanks for all the efford maclipper. it's really useful for newbs like me. i don't even understand what these terms mean, PI, jitter etc. have to go read up. but like u said, i'm more interested in making sure the data can be accessed like say 6months to 1 year down the road.
i dunno if it's just me, but my normal cd-rs i burn have easily lasted me more than 1 year (i'm saying i can still read the data, dunno about any graphs), and that's why i'm still so hesitant about buying a dvd burner. hopefully this thread will allay my fears?
MacClipper said:Sept 2004, Imation 8x (RicohR02)
MacClipper said:To make things really simple for casual readers, you can roughly guage the quality of a disc burn by its Quality Score shown at the bottom right corner of the screen shot.
A perfect disc scan scores 100.
Wolfaro, rather nasty high PIEs on your 8 month young TDK RicohR02 scan (which original burner?), is the read curve OK or even smooth? From experience, BenQ burners are good readers so you may still get a perfectly smooth curve like what I had with my DaxonAZ2 scan posted above.