[dba-Tech] CD burning machine

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Sep 20 16:07:58 CDT 2006


On 20 Sep 2006 at 15:10, Gary Kjos wrote:

> I see. I didn't know that Nero could do that. I've been experiencing a
> lot of CD failures of late - well "a lot" may be stretching it. I have
> had exactly 3 fail so far. All home burned music CD's and all with
> adheisive labels attached to them. The ones that failed were burned in
> 2001 and 2002. I was burning about 3 a week for a while there so I
> have a pretty large library of my Station KJOS disks. I have been
> reurning the ones that have gone bad on my from the playlists and no
> longer use adheisive labels on my burned CD's as that seems to be the
> main difference between the ones that have failed and the ones that
> have not.

Yep, labels appear to be the main culprit in killing CDs.
Here's a good article on CD life:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15800263

-- 
Stuart





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