How many times can you burn a RW disc?

[nickerous]

Howdy all. I'm in the testing phase of my dvd writing. I've been using the same +RW that came with the drive. I guess I've burned it 8 to 10 times so far. Now, I get a "Disc write fail" error everytime I try to burn. I've never used RW media much at all. Is there a limited number of times you can write to a RW disc? I want to make sure that it's the disc and not my writer before I try and burn a DVD+R disc. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

nickerous

[tonyp12]

Should be able to re-burn it over a 100 times.

But most people never get that many used due to that long before
that you have made small scratches on the disc due to not being
"so" carefull where you place the disk.

Get some DVD±R for $2 each and take a shoot at it.

[MachineMan]

I have a cheapy DVD+RW (On-DVD 2.3x) and it is crap after about its 4th burn. Doing a complete format didn't help. I can burn it but when I play it on my Stand alone player the video/audio is sometimes jerky and freezes.
When I burned it to a DVD-R (TDK 2x) it was fine.

--- Cendyne dual format burner
--- Sony SLV D300P player
--- Authored and Burned with Ulead movie factory 2

[Bob W]

I heard at least 1000 times. Also I have a DVD+RW disc I have erased and burned at least 100 times.

[galactica]

I agree with the 1000 times.

I have one that ive hit nearly the 200 mark on and its still going strong!

[handyguy]

better media lasts longer.....I have a sony dvdrw disk, it should last a long time.
another media note:
dvdram has a rewrite rate of 100,000 times & can format in about 45 seconds, yet formatting a dvdrw took me about 40 minutes.

[nickerous]

thanks for the info, guys.

Turns out that it was my writer. Took that one back and got the Sony dual drive instead. Ended up only spending about 20 bucks extra....that's with a 4 year warranty plan