Subzero99

I've been thinking about it and 40GB's can easily be burned to about 9 standard DVDs. But if I do this should I zip or rar my files before burning them to disc ? I have about 40GB worth of mp3's and JPEG pictures. I would like to burn them to about 9 DVDs for safe keeping and long term storage. So instead of burning 1000's of small individual files was wondering if it would be best to compressed the files into 2-4GB large compressed files and just burning 1 or 2 large files to a disc ? I know some will say just buy a portable HDD but these files is something I don't change often or look at and burning 9 DVDs will be cheap. Portable HDDs have moving parts and break or get corrupted. Then again in 10 years will we still even use disc drives or even be able to buy them. A well burned disc can last very long. I'm not 100% about my decision so if you want to give me your two cents on top of answering my original question. Also well if I use the WinRAR program I can use the "Add the recovery record" option. I guess I should mention I do have two 64GB USB thumb drives. I was going to use them for backing up but I was reading that using USB thumb drives as backing stuff up long term isn't very reliable. When I read that, that's why I was thinking of going to DVDs, but thinking of burning discs just feels weird in this day and age.

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yes thats correct it's set to AWS. Now back to my orginal question, is it a bad Ideal to let it go higher than the rated speed ? Update: Hard to explain, but I did some test and it definitely shows that burning faster than recommended max write speed is not a good ideal for long term storage in my opinion, 6x for me.

I the new pioneer DBK-208 and using verbatim BD-R 6x model 97457. When I burn files to disc using Imgburn it automatically sets speed at max, so it burns between 10x-12x. I also verify and it passes the verify. But is it a bad ideal to burn that fast though ? I read often to not go over the max speed the disc is rated at. I'm burning large rar files and I want to keep these disc for at least min 5 years. I like burning at this fast speed saves me time, but I want my discs to be readable in 5 years too. Should I set the write speed to 6X ?

maybe A-120% I don't know. Can you suggest a program that I could use ? I guess I could just try and burn the ISO & CUE only and see if that would work.

I have a image of a CD based game. The game folder consist of three files a IS0,SUB,CUE. I want to burn this game properly to a disc. Was wondering if Imgburn can burn these three files to a CD disc for a proper burn, thanks.

thanks guys

I have a window telling me that, ISO9660 Limit:4,294,967,295 bytes Reason File exceeds the limit imposed by the ISO9660 file system. Hint: If you want to backup this file you'll have to do one of the following: 1. Switch the 'File System' options on the 'Options' tab to 'UDF'. 2. Enable the 'Allow Files Exceeding Size Limit' and 'Multiple Extents' options on the 'Advanced'-> 'Restrictions'-> ISO9660' tab. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I'm using option: Write files/folders to disc. I have diff types of large files on want to backup on BD-R's some are zip/rar/ISO. It says to do one of the following but which one would be best for me ? Should I switch the file system to UDF or enable allow files to exceed size limit ? or do both ? My goal is is to keep my files for long term. I just want my files to be useable years down the road. thanks