[Gllug] re: backups

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Sun Sep 5 09:44:38 UTC 2004


Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:16:59AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
> 
>>I'm sure I read something somewhere about writers laying down better
>>quality tracks if you run them more slowly. Possibly a concern if you
>>wish your discs to be readable by as wide a range of drives as possible.
> 
> Confirmation of this would be good. If you are writing a backup (to be
> potentially/hopefully readable in a few years time) then an extra hour
> in the writing is not really significant -- especially if it happens overnight.

I had also heard this, but have seen no actual proof, I would be very 
interested to hear if it is true.

Will.
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