On 31/08/17 21:40, John Andersen wrote:
On 08/31/2017 12:33 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
But 9GB media invoke a second layer of recording media. As soon as I started trying to put 7 or 8 GB of data on a DVD, my reliability rates went in the toilet. I bought multiple different brands of drives and media.
Yes, if you aren't buying bargain basement media. The double layer disks from some vendors are pretty good. My failure rate with the Verbatim have been less than 1 in 40 1 year after burning.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GHWRIK
Of course some of the early double layer drives sucked as well, so you need quality in both places.
I just ordered a DVD drive back in the day and it came with DL as a matter of course, so I guess it's pretty decent. And so far, I've just used it to try to copy commercial DVDs, so my failure rate is 100% but I think that's down to copy protection, not drive or disk quality. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org