I was told years ago, by those in the know, that i should burn a cd or dvd one times less than max. I have been doing that for about 5 years with very few snags.
I burn either a cd or dvd AND a Maxtor external HD. Dave Quoting David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:48 PM, John Forbes wrote: > >> 100GB is nothing. Buy a few external hard drives, and duplicate >> all your >> pics on more than one drive. > > I just bought one big exernal drive which is big enough to meet my > needs for a while. For archiving I write two copies of each DVD, one > of which is stored offsite. > > For burning I don't use any special software... Mac OS X does burning > quite well by itself. I did find an incompatibility between my > burner and the new 16x discs: I have to burn them at 2x or the burn > will hang while closing the session. One of these days I might > replace the burner with something a little more modern (it's only > rated for 4x anyway). > > - Dave > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > Equine Photography in York Region -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
