CD burning for free...

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

Key Features

* burn all kinds of discs

* audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks

* burn and create ISO files

* data verification after burning process

* create bootable discs

* multi-language interface

* bin/nrg → ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!

* Operating Systems: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 Server / Vista

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How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media

I've just come across an excellent article on Ad Terras Per Aspera which covers how to choose CD/DVD archival media.

"Ahh, I’ve been planning to write this one for awhile: an entire article on archival quality media. As I do professional software development as well as professional photography (what a weird combination), I need archival quality CD and DVD media to store my data on.

However, one of the hardest things to is actually find good media, or even understand why it is good media. This article focuses on the history of Compact Discs, writable CD/DVD media, and why DVD+R is superior to DVD-R. If you want to just know what media is worth buying, skip to the summary at the bottom."

The article gets in-depth in some places but it's well worth reading. However, if you want a summary, here it is.

* DVD+R is much better than DVD-R
* Buy good quality discs