DVD Drives

One thing that is puzzling me is I have written a DVD+RW (TDK) on a Sony Optiac burner and another data DVD+RW (Verbatim) on the same Sony Burner. I have retired the burner and replaced it with an LG Blue Ray burner but it wont read the TDK disc burnt on the Sony but will read the Verbatim disc. So I tried another TDK disc on the LG Burner and it writes and reads fine.

I took the offending TDK disc that the LG wouldn't read and tried it on another Sony burner and it reads fine.

Any ideas? Both burnt with K3b in Linux.

Was the disc finalized (closed) properly after burning?

Yes took about a minute to close/finalize. I am thinking the Sony just prefers it's own written discs.

Probably.

I have a USB LG DVD Writer here and an older Sony SATA Blu-Ray drive. The sony wont read DVD-RW discs burned with the LG but will read other RW discs burned with another older IDE DVD Burner I have. They can just be a bit finicky for some reason :\

Have a feeling the Verbatim discs are far superior to the TDK discs, both +RW.

I just watched a random YT video with a guy testing how many times he could write and erase a DVD-RW. The specs say up to 100 but he got about 17 i think it was.

Google is watching me... I reply to this thread and that video comes up on my feed.. hmmmm xD

Edited by Seansmit17 (Fri 23-May-25 22:31:21)

Not a lot is it? Perhaps I have written to it too many times although can still read from it. Good old spies at Google.

I watched the same video, pretty interesting and amazing how many scratches gets onto the disk just by putting it in and out of the drive.

I have some Blu-ray disks that I formatted so they can be used like a USB stick, just pull files onto them, I formatted them with the LG drive in my PC, but they won't work on the Asus external drive, I can read them via the LG, but for some reason the LG is not writing to any Blueray, which is why I got the external drive as I can also use it with my Mac.

I got some more Blu-ray rewritable disks called Media range, they seem to be okay and a good price.

Don't forget that the disks in the video, were new, old stock, so could have been stored for a few years.

i remember in the early days of CD writing, when my mate and me for that matter had a SCSI Yamaha drive, and we used gold disks, useless, they were, after a few months the gold started to flake off the top. Thankfully, the technology got better pretty quick and drives got faster, writing CD at single speed was not fun, certainly if you had a few of them.

I remember the old 233 writing disks for him to send his music out. I miss those days.

I still use optical, mainly Blu-ray these days, but still a few CDs.

The external Asus drive is a strange thing, i think it is a laptop drive stuck into a case

https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/optical...

I'm so old..

I remember going from a 2x CD-R creative drive to a 52x Lite-on of some sort... the speed difference was insane back then!

Apparently there's a 72x drive out there somewhere.

My LG USB drive is also just a laptop drive in a case.

I'm so old..

It's all relative. I remember loading 8" floppies into the mainframe to do backups - people on here will almost certainly remember using punch cards...