On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> If you use CD-RW, DVD-RW or DVD+RW, you _are_ using MO.
>
> It's "raw" MO. Error rates are rediculously high -- 1 per billion
> (10^9) -- that's 1 every 1GB!
DYM 1 every 10^9 _bits_ or 1 every 10^9 _bytes_?
> Magnetic and WORM are only 1 per 10 trillion (10^13, 1 per 10TB).
Is there any error detection/correction, or can I expect every full
DVD+/-RW I write to start with 25 errors?
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