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Title: DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Mongoose on December 24, 2007, 11:05:29 AM
Hi all

Ive not been having much luck with DVD+R disks of late. I used to always use DataWrite ones, which I found to be decent quality and a good price. Lately though the quality seems to have declined. I tried a couple of spindles of Toughdisk ones, and the first spindle was great but subsequent ones have had a very high failure rate. The latest spindle of 50 had 10 scratched or corroded disks.

My simple question is this, what brand of disks do I have to buy to get reliable recordings? Within reason I dont much care how expensive they are, I just want reliable long lasting disks for data backup purposes.

what do you use? and where do you get them from?
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: soopahfly on December 24, 2007, 11:52:07 AM
Verbatims. and nothing else.
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Shakey on December 24, 2007, 11:55:55 AM
ditto for Verbys, Ive also had some success with Sony disks.
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: soopahfly on December 24, 2007, 13:09:20 PM
Ive found the sony discs to use the utter utter sh*te CMC dye.

Ive found the Verbs actually work out cheaper, despite the higher initial cost, you dont get failiures.  The AOne discs I used to use had something like a 50% failiure rate/
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Mongoose on December 24, 2007, 13:44:10 PM
thanks chaps, my next spindle will be Verbatims then and well see whats what
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Cypher on December 27, 2007, 14:58:27 PM
I would have said Ritek myself.
Title: DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Cheule on December 27, 2007, 15:04:02 PM
Ive been using those ones with the Taiyo Yuden dye on them. Gone through a hundred or more now with not even a hint of a problem. :)
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Privateer on December 27, 2007, 15:09:06 PM
I have 2 players, one player accepts everything, my other one, a Funai
DRVR-B778 a dvd recorder  spits everything out, the only disc it will record on and finalize is a Sumovision Gold Top 8x.
Title: DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Poison_UK on December 27, 2007, 18:23:27 PM
Mr. DVD is what Ive being using lately as we have a huge stockpile of them for some reason and they are working perfectly, no fails at all.

:)
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Serious on December 28, 2007, 01:58:18 AM
Quote from: Privateermy other one, a Funai
DRVR-B778 a dvd recorder  spits everything out, the only disc it will record on and finalize is a Sumovision Gold Top 8x.

Quite an appropriate funny name, nearly :D
Title: Re:DVD+R disk brands
Post by: Mongoose on December 29, 2007, 09:32:37 AM
thanks for the further tips guys, gives me more names to think about