bluecrab Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Does anyone have knowledge or opinion of how much (if any) wear and tear is caused by erasing MDs on a deck?I was thinking that if erasing does cause some wear, I could put an older deck I have, that is doing nothing right now, into use as an "erase" unit. Like everyone else, I want my MD units to last as long as possible, so maybe this would help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Does anyone have knowledge or opinion of how much (if any) wear and tear is caused by erasing MDs on a deck?I was thinking that if erasing does cause some wear, I could put an older deck I have, that is doing nothing right now, into use as an "erase" unit. Like everyone else, I want my MD units to last as long as possible, so maybe this would help?I have observed that erasing on a deck is basically instant. The same cannot be said for portables. In fact if I want to erase something quickly I will walk over to the deck, since it knows enough even to recognise a "HiMd" as such and simply erase it all.I would guess there is no appreciable wear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Only the table of contents (TOC) is erased, which is quite a quick procedure and doesn't cause significant wear. Erasing the whole disk would take a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecrab Posted June 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Only the table of contents (TOC) is erased, which is quite a quick procedure and doesn't cause significant wear. Erasing the whole disk would take a long time.That makes perfect sense and also explains why MDs can sometimes be recovered, because the data's still there. Well, I will have to think of some other use for my boxed-up Pioneer MJ-D508, I guess. Interesting that the portables take so much longer, SFBP. I pretty much use my portables now only for playback anyway.If only Sony were as adept at marketing as they are technically! If only MD had really caught on in the US!If, if, if... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Now I think about it, the portable function to erase all (which I never use) is probably ok, if you do it by pushing buttons (on the portable).I think it's just SonicStage's "initialization" that seems to take rather a long time, and also it frequently barfs if it thinks you shouldn't be deleting a transferred track. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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