Surface error scanning
This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it. ( July 2020 ) Optical media can predictively be scanned for errors and media deterioation well before any data becomes unreadable. A higher rate of errors may indicates deteriorating and/or low quality media, physical damage, an unclean surface and/or media written using a defective optical drive. Those errors can be compensated by error correction to some extent. Error scanning software includes Nero DiscSpeed , k-probe , Opti Drive Control (formerly "CD speed 2000" ) and DVD info Pro for Windows, and QPxTool for cross-platform. Support of error scanning functionality varies per optical drive manufacturer and model. Error types edit There are different types of error measurements, including so-called "C1" , "C2" and "CU" errors on CDs, and "PI/PO (pairity inner/outer) errors" and the more critical "PI/PO failures" on DVDs. Finer-grain error measurements on CD...
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