[Phat Bastard]

I'm burning DVD's with a iMac Superdrive through the Finder, and it works perfectly. I was just wondering if I can save some time by skipping the verification process, even though there is a warning that the disc could be unreadable if the verification is stopped. Has anyone gotten a working DVD while doing this?

[mdc]

i use toast due to the fact that i do not want to sit there while finder copies 4.7gig of data around my hard drive before it writes the disk. but when i use disk utility to burn discs i always stop it from verifying and none of my writes have been bad.

[Fothb]

Bypassing the verification process will not itself introduce any additional risks of a disc being unreadable. The verification process will just compare the contents of the disc to the files that were selected to be burned. It's just a safety precaution to ensure that the disc did in fact come out good. There are rare occassions in which the burn process will be reported as successful, but actually did fail somewhere down the line (a media problem could have caused the burn to succeed and the read to fail).

Here's my rule of thumb: if I am about to delete my only original copy of an important file from the harddrive, I will go through the verification process to make sure it made it over to the disc. If I am just burning something that could easily be recreated, I'll skip the verification process every time. So far, I've never had a failure that a verification would have caught, but with the unreplaceable files, I add the extra layer of precaution.

[mishap]

If it is something important... i would let it verify--otherwise, who cares?

[SMacTech]

We burn 100s of CDs a month to backup data as an archive. About 1-2% of them fail, but it is not during the verify process in Toast that it fails. It is usually during the initialization of the CD. If you are in a hurry and it's not your only copy, or it is not critical data, you can skip the verify. That said, we ALWAYS verify our data, as with today's higher speed CD drives, for the time it takes it is negligible.

[Phat Bastard]

Thanks for the opinions, everyone.

I have stopped the verification process in Toast before with no obvious problems to the CD/DVD. I thought the verification when burning from the Finder was "more" necessary than Toast's, since there is a warning when stopping the verification. I did stop Finder's verify and the DVD looked okay after browsing through some files and directories, so I suppose it is ok not to verify.

[GORDYmac]

In all of my years of CD/DVD burning, verification has never found an error. So I'd say no.

[ginoledesma]

I've run into a number of verification failures using Toast, and that's often when burning at high speeds, even if the media is rated to handle that speed. I usually burn at 16x tops these days, usually 12x, as the media sold locally seems like crap.

Like the others said, if its something you want to make sure works, let the verification proceed. Its usually just 3-4 minutes on average (CD-Rs), so I factor that in during the burning time.

[Millennium]

I would go ahead with verification if something important was on the line, or if your burner is old. Otherwise, the risk isn't that high.

[Spheric Harlot]

I ALWAYS verify DVD-Rs.

I have had numerous burns fail verification, especially with cheaper DVD-R media.

That said, I've just switched to TDK DVD-Rs, and have not had a single burn fail out of 20+ burns, so I think I will reconsider after using up this spindle...

-s*

[Dale Sorel]

I've had normal CD verifications fail in Toast, when in fact the burn turned out OK

[Eriamjh]

How do you turn verify burn off in the Finder in Tiger?