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?

Verbatims. and nothing else.

ditto for Verbys, Ive also had some success with Sony disks.

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/

thanks chaps, my next spindle will be Verbatims then and well see whats what

I would have said Ritek myself.

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.

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.

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.

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

thanks for the further tips guys, gives me more names to think about