Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music?
Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music?
For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?
Main differences:
- CD-R can only be written once
- CD-RW is more expensive
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CD-RW is superior. It's more expensive but you could use it as many times as you need. So if you were for example a 13 year old who loved to distro hop Linux distributions.. it's very useful to be able to rewrite whatever you were doing.
The price difference is quickly made up for with the re-usability factor.
Although I don't understand why anyone would burn a CD anymore. You can buy flash drives with a ton of storage for really cheap these days. You have all sorts of cloud options. You can even rent your own VPS for less than $5 a month.
Although they are supposed to be forever rewritable I could only ever get quality brand RWs to do 3 to 5 rewrites before burns would fail verification. Source: lots of data migration between servers where USB sticks and networking was restricted.
i think a lot of it depended on your cd burner. i've had differing amounts of success with different burners.
still though, the price was not 3-5x higher if i remember correctly
The price difference is quickly made up for with the re-usability factor.
I don't think that's true, CD-Rs cost pennies. You have to rewrite every CD-RW 4 or 5 times before it's comparable in price. In practice, across every CD-RW ever made, the approximate number of times it is written is probably about 0.5