Staples DVD-R......any good???
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A good rule of thumb is to look for "Made in Japan" on the label...the exception to this would be Verbatim.
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In my experience, Staples brands have given me the most coasters out of any other generic brand. Very poor quality, IMHO. Lowest grade CMC's.
It's better to spend a little more for better quality.
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Over the last 4 months I have gone through 1 100 pack of Sony, and 100 Maxell 16x -r with 12% failure on each. That is horrible for such namr brand companies. 12 disks each in the trash.Comment
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Coasters are the end result of several factors: media + burner + firmware. You also have to take into account the speed you're burning dvds, your computer memory & free resources.
Now, regarding Staples media, I wouldn't buy their 16X disks at any price (but that's only my opinion)Comment
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if you dot your i's and cross your t's, you can burn most blanks with less than a 1 or 2 percent faliure ratio, of course in 6 months those playable disks may degrade to the point they are hard to read
doing everything right with premium media give years not months of back up
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Many years before getting into the DVD recordables, I had someone at job backup some IMPORTANT data to CD's (cheapo's). I didn't know and obviously the IT Group didn't understand quality media (they supplied the discs). The dye peeled right of the plastic ..... horror .... I was luckly and retreived about 90% of the data off the 7-8 discs.
So when I starting doing DVD backups I knew media was a VERY important key !!! Started off with TY's and Ritek's, all TY's now. Did a lot of research before making my 1st backup.
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Hi ahill,
I suppose you have gotten your answer ...
I was wondering which dvd burner are you using? And can it bitset?
Because some of the burners are picky and will not work too well with various DVD blanks.
If your DVD burner can bitset then I would go with DVD+R's to bitset as DVD-ROM for most compatibilty ... but they tend to be pricier than DVD-Rs.
If you trying to keep to reasonable price then go with DVD-R's ... but as mentioned above get Verbs or Taiyo ... IF you want to archive for a long, long time.
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