An optical medium storage device improves the usable life of re-writable optical
storage mediums, such CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks, by adjusting write parameters
to compensate for time between an initial write on the optical storage medium and
the current time, with adjusted write parameters fine-tuning signal-to-noise ratios
and improving the number of reliable overwrites for the optical storage medium.
A time compensator determines the time delta between an initial write on the optical
storage medium, such as formatting of the medium, and the current time, and then
applies the time delta to determine a time compensation factor that adjust the
write parameters of a focused laser beam that writes information to the optical
storage medium
