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Old 11-03-2008   #11 (permalink)
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Re: Is a TRT test a valid way of testing the readability of a disc?

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Originally Posted by DrageMester View Post
There is no such thing as "meaningless" files for disc quality scans and Transfer Rate Tests; the drive and the software don't care what those files contain - only whether they can be read and how many correctable and uncorrectable errors are detected by the drive's error correcting layer.
No such thing? Please explain. If you cannot perform a real life test how will you know. If you cannot watch it or copy the disc back to the HDD then how is that test enough to prove it actually works? I have to keep repeating myself

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If you can read a DVD by performing a TRT, you can also copy the files from that DVD using the same drive (provided that your harddrive has sufficient free space); The TRT actually reads the data on the disc, it just doesn't write the data to the harddrive.
yeah sure but if that test is not being performed then how do we (the public) know?

There has to be a better way.
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