Does High PIF Error Rates Matter?

[PC-GUY]

Some people say yes and some say no. Thanks for any input.

[elsamay]

In my tests (liteon 832s with g04), unreadable disks were all associated with high PIF rates, as well as high PI rates . High quality media with this writer gave low Pi and PIF and no problems with reading media. So I don't like to see high PIF's - well anything over an average of 0.5.

[LTR12101B]

Some drives report PI and PO, other report PI and PIF (a parity inner Failure would normally result in a PO)

Like C1 -> C2 -> CU progression in CD error scanning, there is a similar progression of

PI -> PIF or PO -> POF

What the specifications say, and what works in practice, are often two different things - the main problem being that if it's riding close to the limit of non-fatal errors, any increase can tip it over into fatal errors.


So to be completely non-commital, it's a bad sign, just like skyhigh PI rates.