-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2010-04-10 at 02:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Quality of DVD blanks does not generally correlate well to brand names. Generics can be top quality, and brands you might think you could trust often fall short. Read http://www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/dvd-media.htm before you buy any more. Any time you experience failures with what you bought, switch to slower speed burning until you run out and can get something better.
Absolutely, I always check that page. Another one is: http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-to-choose-cddvd-archival-me... "How To Choose CD/DVD Archival Media"
My last purchase was DVD-R by JVC, a brand I'd never bought previously. I'm about 60% through the spool of 100 with 0 failures so far. Others with very low failure rates were Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. High failure rates have come from Sony, Philips, HP, Memorex, Staples & Office Depot. Last year I was using about 200-300 per month. Now I'm down to probably less than 40/month.
I currently use Verbatim dvd+r, which is listed in the above link as "1st class". Absolutely no problems, since some years. You have to check the code with dvd+rw-mediainfo: cer@nimrodel:~> dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/dvd INQUIRY: [HL-DT-ST][DVD-RAM GSA-H20L][1.00] GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION: Mounted Media: 1Bh, DVD+R Media ID: MCC/004 <================= Current Write Speed: 16.0x1385=22160KB/s Write Speed #0: 16.0x1385=22160KB/s Write Speed #1: 12.0x1385=16620KB/s Write Speed #2: 8.0x1385=11080KB/s Write Speed #3: 4.0x1385=5540KB/s Speed Descriptor#0: 00/0 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@16.0x1385=22160KB/s Speed Descriptor#1: 00/0 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@12.0x1385=16620KB/s Speed Descriptor#2: 00/0 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@8.0x1385=11080KB/s Speed Descriptor#3: 00/0 R@8.0x1385=11080KB/s W@4.0x1385=5540KB/s ... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvATHYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VC5wCffVqKNA/0968dBOpngS0EZwVV Zb8AnR5D0dfh2njcLEoLoVVbAe7yduYe =FYvK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org