Metatech

Thanks for your answer and comments. Regarding my drive longevity, I have always burnt at maximum 2x the speed for BD-R. I favor drive longevity and fewer burn fails over a speed increase during burning. There is a rule of thumb saying that an increase of 10 degrees in temperature reduces the lifespan of an electronic composant by half (some say it is a consequence of Arrhenius equation) After one more burn failure today, I realised that the burner is VERY sensitive to movements on the USB cable. The slightest variation in the bending of the cable can lead to I/O errors... I usually launch a disk burning operation when I am away from the computer, and this might also explain why I have a very high success rate, because the burner is most of the times static... Anyway I have no doubt that the failed disk are not due to ImgBurn itself... YMMV, My 2c, metatech

Hello, I am using ImgBurn to write BD-R, and I burned about 500 disks with it. My drive is an external USB drive (PIONEER_BD-RW_BDR-XD05). I know they are not recommended, but I burnt more than 98% of my disks with it successfully (always of type CMCMAG-BA5-000). In about 2% of the case, I get an write error, as below : W 20:47:49 Failed to Write Sectors 653152 - 653183 - Reason: Write Error W 20:47:49 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 20:47:50 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write Here is the corresponding screenshot (for a different disk) : Two weeks ago, the same error occurred for 5 disks in a row. Since then, I did not encounter the error anymore. The only unusual step I did for the failed disks was to move the laptop and the external burner to a different room during the burning process. Can it cause this kind of errors ? Thanks in advance, Best regards, metatech ImgBurn_write_error.txt