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100 Pack RiData 4.7GB 16x DVD+R Discs $24+FS at NewEgg.com

Originally posted by: superHARD
so, how good are these dvds?
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They are definetely not good. You get what you pay for.

Ridata used to be pretty good, especially when they were using Ricoh (Japanese media on par with Taiyo Yuden at the time) - but now its Ritek only. Ritek actually used to be pretty good too, but the quality has gone WAYYY down.

If you buy them, don't expect them to last. Especially if you start burning them all at their rated 16x speed. Mark my words and try your discs again in 5 years, see how many of them are still completely readable.
 
Originally posted by: AMDZen

If you buy them, don't expect them to last. Especially if you start burning them all at their rated 16x speed. Mark my words and try your discs again in 5 years, see how many of them are still completely readable.
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but what if i only want cheap thrills out of them?
 
Originally posted by: timxpx
Originally posted by: AMDZen

If you buy them, don't expect them to last. Especially if you start burning them all at their rated 16x speed. Mark my words and try your discs again in 5 years, see how many of them are still completely readable.
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but what if i only want cheap thrills out of them?
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I wouldn't know since I don't really burn anything with the knowledge that it won't last.

But yea, if you don't care about longevity then they are good I guess. I never got any coasters using them, although according to most of the stuff I've read, the burn reliability is the worst part of this media. I just started to notice how high the PI/PO errors are on them and the high degree of degredation (like nearly double the error count in 6 months) So I stopped using them and stopped buying them.

I used to buy from Newegg and get RiData every single time, back when they were using RICOHJPNR01 media it was some of the best you could buy. Now what your getting is RITEKR04
 
Originally posted by: AMDZen

They are definetely not good. You get what you pay for.

Ridata used to be pretty good, especially when they were using Ricoh (Japanese media on par with Taiyo Yuden at the time) - but now its Ritek only. Ritek actually used to be pretty good too, but the quality has gone WAYYY down.

If you buy them, don't expect them to last. Especially if you start burning them all at their rated 16x speed. Mark my words and try your discs again in 5 years, see how many of them are still completely readable.
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I have to agree base on experience. My older 4X and 8X RiData/Ritek work just fine even today. However, the last batch 16X RiData/Ritek I got last summer all crapped out on me. The movies I burned on them all checked out right after I burned them. But when I tried to watch some of them recently, many of them were un-readable by my DVD player. Surface scan on PC revealed many unreadable sectors. This is less than 1 year in storage! I had to replace many backups with Taiyo Yuden. It didn't pay for me trying to save a few bucks. I ended up paying more money for TY and wasted a lot of tiime.

ps. I also have similar bad experience with TDK. Older TDKs work fine. However, newer 16X TDKs are made by CMC. Those suffer the same quality problem as Ritek.
 
I agree with some of the comments about long-term unreliability of the Ritek media. I noticed this as well when some of my DVDs crapped out on me less than a year after burning... never had an issue with that before.
 
Yeah, I kept hearing how great Ridata/tech media was until me and my roommate have had whole crops of burns go bad, it isn't like 10-20% it's more like 80% of my burns have Cyclic Redundancy Errors that have cropped up a month or so later. I've lost a ton of data from this.
 
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"happysmiley
11-24-2006, 04:48 PM
The Dynex was Made in China, MCC 03RG20 mfg. by Verbatim.

DO NOT BUY.

I LOVE Verbatim, but whomever they outsourced the manufacturing to, made garbage. I have never seen such horrible burns in my 1500+ successful and verified results on my Lite-On external. I burned at the minimum, 6X; the PIEs were around 1200 on average, and the PIFs were around 45 on average. Terrible. I'm taking them back. Not even worth $4.99. :vomit:"
 
Originally posted by: superHARD
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"happysmiley
11-24-2006, 04:48 PM
The Dynex was Made in China, MCC 03RG20 mfg. by Verbatim.

DO NOT BUY.

I LOVE Verbatim, but whomever they outsourced the manufacturing to, made garbage. I have never seen such horrible burns in my 1500+ successful and verified results on my Lite-On external. I burned at the minimum, 6X; the PIEs were around 1200 on average, and the PIFs were around 45 on average. Terrible. I'm taking them back. Not even worth $4.99. :vomit:"
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I don't know. I have burned 200+ Dynex DVD's and have had no coasters. Hmmm...

I use an NEC 3540 burner, and burn the DVD's at maximum speed as well. I have always bought the Day After Thanksgiving Dynex DVD's and they have worked well. So, I don't know I guess it's up to you guys.
 
The cheap media I thought I got a good deal on over the years came back to bite me in the ass. Even when they burn OK after sitting for a year or two the are no good... full of CRC errors. I reburned every DVD movie I had that was not on TY media. And close to 50 of them were not recoverable so they hit the trash can first 🙁

Buy inferrior media if you don't care about about burn quality, coasters, or storage life. TY burns great on my 3 burners and it has a claimed storage life of 100 years. "Cheap" media is no bargain anyway, you can get genuine TY for under $29 per 100 shipped.

[link will not show up here but it is Super Media Store]
and
https://www.shop4tech.com/item5167.html

So have fun with your cheap media. I'll stick with my 99% quality burns I get with TY media and assurance the DVD will play when I pull it out in the years to come

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7591/1650burnzc1.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/9182/1650burn2vw3.jpg
 
Lets turn this into a good hot deals thread!

where is a good place to get TY media cheap? (thanks Lipservice)
 
Well, all of my DVD's are on your so called "cheap" media discs. I have movies burnt as old as 11/7/04, and they still work. I just checked about 15 of my oldest DVD's and they all work initially. I watched Shawshank Redemption tonight, my first burn ever over 2 years ago, and it still works. So, I guess my point is that I have had success with my burns. Thanks a lot for the great input though Lipservice, as I agree with you for as far as my future burns go. I think I will go with some TY next time 🙂
 
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