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The wonders of optical disks... over 10 hours to copy a couple GB?

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I have a DVD here which I have NOT mistreated. I have kept it in a case, in the dark, in a cool room since I've bought it. When I got it, it read fine. Now, it reads at about the speed of a floppy disk. This is across multiple computers, using multiple DVD drives, and even multiple operating systems! The content on this disk is freely available, so I'm not in danger of losing anything I can't replace, but its F***ing annoying when the reason I got a physical copy was to not have to download the data on my shit DSL Internet connection.

 

Are these optical disks just made that poorly these days? What is the technical reason for the above? I've seen drives in the past which seem to "hate" certain disks. I.e. the drive reads disks fine, the disk reads fine in other drives but that particular disk in that particular drive results in nothing but problems. This mostly affected burned disks though. I've never seen it with official pressed disks. So, when I found it running so slowly, I tried another drive and then another OS.

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Maybe it was burned on a poor DVD drive? I once burned a Kubuntu installation media on a Sony Vaio laptop DVD drive. The media worked somehow, but read very slowly on all machines.

 

When I burnt it again using my desktop DVD drive, the new disc worked just fine.

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Nope, the disk I'm trying to read is a pressed disk, not a burned disk. It is officially produced as far as I can tell.

 

EDIT: It finished now. I re-inserted it a bunch of times and somehow that made it read faster...?

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