How Often to Align

Drive alignment problems are often, unfortunately, detected in-the-field. A misaligned drive will be able to read back disks it copied just fine, but when read on another drive (often the customer's drive) read errors may occur. Because of this we recommend that you check your drive's alignment every 2,000 disks or at least once a year.

If the alignment counter hasn't been changed (the alignment counter can be found under Setup|Global) an alignment button will appear on the main menu screen after 2,000 disks have been copied. Selecting the alignment button will automatically enter you into the alignment diagnostic system, where your drive's alignment will be analyzed.