Verify is required...Right?

[JoonSoo52]

When I burn an Iso Image onto a disc, there's a checkbox below Destination called Verify (next to Test Mode). Well, yeah, should I always have that checked?

 

The only reason why i'm asking is because, more often than not, my discs fail at 50% verify. Also someone on Se7ensins said they keep theirs unchecked?... 

 

A simple answer will do, thanks!

 

*EDIT: I am now aware that there is a thread that covers this topic. However, I (quite sadly) don't know how to remove/delete this thread... Please remove this thread/lock it when possible since I have found my answer.* SORRY

Edited April 19, 2014 by JoonSoo52

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Verifying doesn't change the outcome (make a burn more / less successful), it just tells you if the disc is readable in that drive and that what's read from the disc matches what should be on the disc (comparing it to the source image/data).

 

It's enabled by default because I believe it's always worth checking the discs. I'd never just rely on the drive not erroring out during the write phase to mean the burn was ok.

[dbminter]

I'd leave it on.  I've found that when my drives fail, more often than not, they complete Writes successfully, but fail during Verify.

 

 

Failing Verify at 50% sounds like it's failing at the layer change on a multilayer media.  When my drives failed, it would often fail at the layer change on DVD+R DL during a Verify.