[blue68f100]

Bitor, It could be your burner, and not the dvd's. I've seen may burners try to burn at a rate that was not correct. Slow the burn speed down. And allow the dvd burner to cool off between burns. I've seen cd burner have the same problem. The ony one I have that I can burn 50 back to back is my Yamaha, which is not made any more. I generaly buy what's on sell at Micro Center, and I avoid Fry's GQ brand. I have gotten several batches of CD's from them rated at 52x, I was forced to burn at 12x. And to top it off that what the cd info said they were. Packaged at 52x.

A snap drive can not be read with any other os. It is a Highly MODIFIED BSD file system.

It seams to be a standard practice to size arrays (drives) by raw un-formated capacity. That is the way the HD mfg size them. The reason why is some file systems waste a lot of space. The Smart system reserves sectors for replacements. So it is very hard to say what a system will format at. Even BIOS settings have a impact.