Check out http://www.digit-life.com/articles/cdrdisktestp5/index.html
They’ve tested some 650 discs and not suprisingly, Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals seems to have won…
Hi,
Just bought 300 of the unbranded Mitsui 80min cd’s from svp (400 but only 300 for me), burnt 20+ in varying degrees i.e data, data with overburn, svcd + svcd/overburn, and I test everyone with CDspeed scandisk and quality check and everyone is 100% fine - green all the way, no errors and full speed (burnt using plextor drives).
I cannot say the same about Diskrite, TDK, or some other makes.
They cost around £0.46 each, but they are quality disks.
I will not be using any other make from now on - not worth the gamble in quality+media life terms for cheaper makes.
Mitsui for life
Ice’y
How old is the review?
Seems kind of odd that the tests were at such slow speeds. I have seen other tests that say 4X is generally the most error prone speed to write with.
I dug around and found an older one… Part IV
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/cdrdisktestp4/index.html
Look who was consistently good in the tests: Imation Phtalocyanine made by CMC Magnetics. It keeps right up with Kodak…
That’s not supposed to happen!
Originally posted by godzilla525
[B]Look who was consistently good in the tests: Imation Phtalocyanine made by CMC Magnetics.It keeps right up with Kodak…
That’s not supposed to happen!
[/B]
(Almost) any Phtalocyanine disc can keep up with Kodak…
I have a bunch of CMC phtalacyanine discs and they are all 99,9% (CDSpeed gives me a red sector on anything, including Kodak) green…
Hi,
This red sector business is worrying - from comments in various threads, it appears it is very writer / media / reader dependant - kinda like all the results we are seeing with Plextors and safedisc
All I know so far is the Mitsui’s continually work perfectly whereas other media in my Plextor (or the 2 others at work) show varying results. With a good disc other than the Mitsui’s, this also seems to go in hand with slight slow-downs and error reports - whether correctable or not.
Don’t know if the suspect media is good or not, maybe this is a Plextor bugbare whereby they (firmware, lasers, etc) are not burning quite right to many brands of disc - so much for all the advertising crap saying 'new technology, great optimised burns on all media- - rubbish perhaps?
Ice’y