Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I rarely burn cd's or dvd's, is the verify burned data feature really necessary? I burned a data dvd tonight and it kept reading bad sectores, it always seems to do this to me.. on any drive.
Well, is it necessary? False. But is it good to do? Definitely.
If you want to make sure your permanent backups work, do the verify thing. Also, manual old school verification wouldn't hurt either, since I always do both to make sure.
I would 4th the recommendation to verify burned data if the discs will be stored and used a long time off from now.
Also, what media are you using, and what burner? You might have some really low grade media, or the burner and media combination you have is a bad mix. I know at work, I have to always use media I bring from home because the Sony DVDs I get from work always result in bad burns with the Optiarc drive in my workstation. Taiyo Yuden FTW.