Re: [trinity-users] Re: Writing Blu-Ray?

On 07/08/2020 10:54 PM, deloptes wrote:

Last year I checked many backup cds from the past before throwing away. Some written in 2002 were working and most written in 2007 were failing.

I always write CDs/DVDs at 1/2 or a little more of the maximum speed of the drive or the disk, whichever is lower. It seems to get a better write than using the max speed, because I never have write failures, and I have disks that are almost 20 years old and still readable.

On 07/08/2020 11:34 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

I got some Samsungs that would never power on after a few years on the shelf.

Sometimes you can get an old drive to spin up by giving it a quick twist around the axis. The idea is to make the platters move a little; then sometimes it'll start.