To dummy or not to dummy.....please read..and help me...

[Galway]

There is no need to come back with the attitude, he asked a perfectly simple question and see no reason for your quite nasty comments.

In answering the origional question, the dummy servers to make the date load faster, and is not the intention to protect the DC. The DC will quite happy read the disk if it is not dummy written. But it will take longer ,,,,, and hence any damage resulting will be a consequence of more laser use, which personally is not worth worrying about.