Dying drive or bad blanks?

[The VCR King]

Either dying drive or just needed a firmware update.

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Guys I figured it out. Bad blanks. I bought a used TDK CDRW4008B drive at a Goodwill for $5 and put it in my external enclosure. I burned one of my current blank CDs (from the only spindle I have, some verbatim printables) and it failed four times before it burned a good copy on the TDK, and my Samsung took five tries before it burned a good disc. I then bought a brand-new spindle of Memorex CD-Rs and both worked perfectly first try. So this whole time I had crap blanks.

 

[beers]

I bought a used TDK CDRW4008B drive at a Goodwill for $5

Sounds super reliable bro.

 

[The VCR King]

Sounds super reliable bro.

It actually works really well to be honest, I'm surprised. This thing does 52x no problem, and the headphone jack on it is a nice feature that I enjoy.

 

[beers]

It actually works really well to be honest

it failed four times before it burned a good copy

Mkay.

 

[The VCR King]

Mkay.

BAD BLANKS... my other drives did the same issue until i bought new blanks

 

[voyagerfan99]

It actually works really well to be honest, I'm surprised. This thing does 52x no problem, and the headphone jack on it is a nice feature that I enjoy.

Burning slower is better.

 

[Darren]

I'm no connoisseur of physical media, but is a bad batch of blank discs a feasible reason for this? I mean yeah, it's VCR, we gotta tease , but thought I'd ask.