What is the best and worst discs to your experience?

Don't start mudslinging!!! If I rate you favourite discs as garbage, so be it. But don't bitch about it....

I may have forgotten some manufacturers, but here we go:

Note this is the manufacturers, not the disc brand.

TOP 10(the best first):
Kodak
Mitsui toatsu
Richo made by richo(not those made by ritek).
MPO
Fujifilm (their new phthalocyanine media is REALLY good)
Tayo yuden
Prodisc
Acer gold
ritek(and richo made by ritek), only phthalocyanine
Moser baer india/multimedia masters & machinery, only phthalocyanine type.

BOTTOM 10(the worst first):
Fornet international (only cyanine type)
CMC Magnetics
AMS Technology
Lead data
Xcitek
XEO Corporation
Multimedia masters & machinery (only cyanine type)
TDK
Ritek (only cyanine type)
Mitsubishi chemicals/verbatim

I may have forgotten some that should have been put in between some of these, but it at least gives a rough overview on what experiences I have.

My personnal best media is Mitsui... these disks works in everything!

My worst would be DataWare... oh boy, you couldn't burn at 4x, read errors all the way... what a shitty brand!

i would change it:

bad: moser baer india
good: mitsubishi/verbatim

Ok, maybe I should remove moser baer from the good list, but I would never remove mitsubishi/verbatim from the bad list......I've had just to many bad experiences with them.....

i thought Grand Advance Technology Ltd. and Princo would have got in the top 10......you didn't happen to forget them did you, or did you not want to add them in??

A weird thing - i normally buy cdr's in 100 spindles. And normally, the cdr's smell like coconut milk for some reson, but the smell goes after burning onto it. Anyone had a simial experience?

My Riteks smell like burning wood!

GAT sucks too.

My personal favourites are HP CD-Rs. Their badges are manufactured by different manufacturers but all are good quality.

I hate Unbranded CD-Rs by Multimedia masters & machinery.

i never ever had coasters with verbatim blanks. neither with my good 'ol teac cd-r55s nor with my plex 12/4/32.

My problems with verbatim:

-Some CD-ROM's will not read them(Kenwood, Creative and some others)
-Some writers don't like them (Acer 1208 and some philips writers, but in general they don't like any media with dark blue back).
-Some car audio player don't like them(sony, JVC, not all models.)
-They develop some darker spots and then becomes unreadable after some time(I've some from '98 that did that).
-Exxxpensive, kodak is even cheaper here.

What about Digital Storage Technology and Gigastorage?

Don't have much experience with GAT but some old gigastorage was crap quality. I have some newer gigastorages that is ok though.

I use TDK on my ricoh. i luv them....no coasters *yet*

kodak is over priced.

i just wish i could get them unlabled. like an all white face or something like that.

I have used verbatim Data life plus for as long as I can remeber and very very rarley burnt a coaster, But I believe it depends on the burner more than the disc, it is all a case of finding suitable discs for your burner.

Yes! You put the right word to it! I recently got a 100 spindle and I thought it smelled funny, but I couldn't put my finger on what it smelled of.
It smells exactly like coconut-milk!

i have had lots of spindles like tht. lol. Dont know what it is though.

GET MITSUI OR KODAK CD-R's!!!!! plain and simple, they are the highest rated cd-r's out there for long term storage (100 years+)
when not abused like hell

any other disk i know of cant compare to these!!!

they cost 4 times as much as 'good' quality cdr's . it's cheaper to rebackup your backups every now and again. BTW no one sells mitsui in england [not any, only online stores]

l8er boys

Well so far I've used Ritek for a long while and it hasn't had any problem.And it's quite cheap also.

Medion
Tevion
and now have a spindle of Discrites

Those hi-space carbon are cool too.


I really don't care if cd's deteriorate over the years.. good reason to get rid of old junk anyhow..

good point. i must hve at least 100 junk cdrs

ATIP: 97m 27s 45f
Disc Manufacturer: Kodak Japan Ltd.
Reflective layer: Dye (Short strategy; e.g. Phthalocyanine)
Media type: CD-Recordable
Recording Speeds: min. unknown - max. unknown
nominal Capacity: 650.83MB (74m 05s 01f / LBA: 333226)

The best: US price from kodak 80mins 50 on spindle $15.00
just both 6 spindle with frieght and sales tax $109.00 now i was informed the price is cheap because they are going out of the cdr blank disc business does anyone know if this is true?

yea i think they are going out of cd-r business cause they are to expensive to produce because of tha gold in them

Originally posted by Mr. Belvedere

- (and now have a spindle of Discrites) -

Hi, your the first person other than me that I have seen state they have some DiscRites - they are suppsoedly Grade A Cyanine discs.

I hope they are good, because disk-life is a concern of mine. I don't expect most cdr's to last anywhere near the quoted life, and who in 20 years time will pursue that aspect anyway?

As long as in 10-15 years they are still readable without any major errors I will be happy - hopefully in 2-3 years we will not find they have major problems.

I tried to find 80-min gold Mitsui's (which has proved hard to do) and then when you do are they really worth £0.45 / disc anyway? TDK / Verbatims / other major makes seem questionable as the new concern doing the rounds is you can never be sure what you are buying (who actually produced them).

Ice'y

Best: Mitsui
Worst: Arita

Greetzzz,

Sauron

best cd-r's are mitsui and kodak PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!