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I recently burned a whole series of these discs from Maxell to 4x rather than 16x, as I figured there would be more time in a slower burn for the laser to mark the dye surface and make it more legible and last longer. But then I hear that the newer dyes work BETTER at a faster speed - would someone care to explain that to me?
Once I read about using the native speed for burning mentioned on the packaging, I reburned another copy of the discs at 16x, so now I have two copies, one done at 4x and the other at 16x.
I figured this would give me the best of both worlds, to see which one fails first, but why does a faster burn work better?
UPDATE: I think I may have seen the answer for myself just now, by examining the surface of the discs in question - the ones burned at the faster speed actually look darker than their 4x counterparts, so maybe it does make a difference.
In any case, unlike a flash drive suddenly failing to work outright, if my discs do become partially unreadable, I should be able to salvage most of the data, right?
I recently burned a whole series of these discs from Maxell to 4x rather than 16x, as I figured there would be more time in a slower burn for the laser to mark the dye surface and make it more legible and last longer. But then I hear that the newer dyes work BETTER at a faster speed - would someone care to explain that to me?
Once I read about using the native speed for burning mentioned on the packaging, I reburned another copy of the discs at 16x, so now I have two copies, one done at 4x and the other at 16x.
I figured this would give me the best of both worlds, to see which one fails first, but why does a faster burn work better?
UPDATE: I think I may have seen the answer for myself just now, by examining the surface of the discs in question - the ones burned at the faster speed actually look darker than their 4x counterparts, so maybe it does make a difference.
In any case, unlike a flash drive suddenly failing to work outright, if my discs do become partially unreadable, I should be able to salvage most of the data, right?
