by adidas on Wed Jun 20, 2001 2:09 am
I use CD-RWs religously. The CD player in my truck reads MP3s or audio on CD-RWs
They're also good for backing up data. I rarely ever do backups on CD-Rs, you just burn your data on them, and then when it's time to do your next backup, you have to use another CD (instead of writing over your old data)
Only when I know I'm not going to want to change the cd, I use CD-Rs. Those cases mostly include audio CDs, and sometimes rom CDs.
I've never been told that I had to format a CD-RW, what brand CD-RW did you buy? It takes a long time to fully erase the data from one, I know that. It physically erases ALL the data. You can also do a 'quick erase' which just erases the TOC, which fools the CD drive into thinking the cd is empty. A quick erase only takes about 1 minute.