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[dead] Ritek RiData Super Grade 16X DVD-R 100pk Silver Matte

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www.meritline.oom/ritek-ridata-16x-dvd-r-media-dvdr-blank-media-silver-matte.html

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"100 Pack Genuine Ritek RiData Super Grade 16X DVD-R (Silver Matte) Blank Media 4.7GB in Cake Box (DRD-4716-RDCB501), Free Ground Shipping, Get $9 Rebate From Mar 20th to Apr 2nd Item code: 102-432-100-fs
Free Shipping - Valid for UPS Ground (Continental USA Only). "

100 pack dvd media = $38.99
10% coupon code =-$3.90 (publicly posted @ meritline.oom/newsletter2.html)
mail in rebate = -$9.00
total shipped = $26.09

deal dead, thanks to all the whiners to love to complain 🙂
 
ritek is b grade media any way you cut it. you get what you pay for. i would never use ritek for anything, i'd rather pay the extra couple of bucks for mcc or ty media. why bother with the rest when you can have the best. it might burn fine now, but anyone who knows will tell you riteks tend to degrade way faster than TY or MCC disks. you can pretty much pick up a 50 pack of ty or mcc instore for 15 bucks. so that would make it 100 disks of the good stuff for 30 + tax. so you pay about 6 bucks more than the riteks for peace of mind, name brand, and most importantly, quality. you don't want to find out your ritek back ups literally turned to poop a couple of years down the line.
 
Originally posted by: makoto00
ritek is b grade media any way you cut it. you get what you pay for. i would never use ritek for anything, i'd rather pay the extra couple of bucks for mcc or ty media. why bother with the rest when you can have the best. it might burn fine now, but anyone who knows will tell you riteks tend to degrade way faster than TY or MCC disks. you can pretty much pick up a 50 pack of ty or mcc instore for 15 bucks. so that would make it 100 disks of the good stuff for 30 + tax. so you pay about 6 bucks more than the riteks for peace of mind, name brand, and most importantly, quality. you don't want to find out your ritek back ups literally turned to poop a couple of years down the line.
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Ritek was all right a while back, but now they are B grade, like you said. Poor archival quality = :thumbsdown:
 
I like RiTek, I've had 99.9% burn sucess with them....over 300 disks. Now, everytime Ritek is mentioned, the "experts" chime in with how bad it is. OK, so I've read all the links they provided to me in the past and a couple people have shown "bit error rates" after 1 year, bla, bla, bla. Funny thing, I have DVD's 3 years old now on Ritek disks and they are just fine when I play them on my set-top DVD player.

I'm not archiving data for all eternity, just some movie backups so I can keep my originals mint. You crappers can just move on to another thread.
 
There is a difference between Ritek and Taiyo Yuden media. TYs consistently deliver a better burn with less error on many DVD burners. No one really knows about the long-term storage life of burned media. Time is $. It takes about 25 min to backup a DVD movie. Is your time worth the extra 14 cents (TY media)?
 
Originally posted by: makoto00
ritek is b grade media any way you cut it. you get what you pay for. i would never use ritek for anything, i'd rather pay the extra couple of bucks for mcc or ty media. why bother with the rest when you can have the best. it might burn fine now, but anyone who knows will tell you riteks tend to degrade way faster than TY or MCC disks. you can pretty much pick up a 50 pack of ty or mcc instore for 15 bucks. so that would make it 100 disks of the good stuff for 30 + tax. so you pay about 6 bucks more than the riteks for peace of mind, name brand, and most importantly, quality. you don't want to find out your ritek back ups literally turned to poop a couple of years down the line.
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What would you get?...linky?
 
Originally posted by: BadThad
I like RiTek, I've had 99.9% burn sucess with them....over 300 disks. Now, everytime Ritek is mentioned, the "experts" chime in with how bad it is. OK, so I've read all the links they provided to me in the past and a couple people have shown "bit error rates" after 1 year, bla, bla, bla. Funny thing, I have DVD's 3 years old now on Ritek disks and they are just fine when I play them on my set-top DVD player.

I'm not archiving data for all eternity, just some movie backups so I can keep my originals mint. You crappers can just move on to another thread.
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Whoa man calm down. I'm not trying to crap, I'm just providing info, especially when there are many comparable b&m deals going on for better media without rebate hassel. I too have Ritek media that I burned 3-4 years ago that work fine. But that's because I archive my stuff well (good environmental ambience, etc). However, they have degraded at a far greater rate than the TY disks. They age badly, and this is a fact. Sometimes so much so, that it's forced me to reburn them. whereas the TY chugged on fine. Just because Ritek disks served well for your isolated case, does not mean it does for everyone.

Also, Ritek has this thing where sometimes their spindles contain blotched disks where the dye is messed up, but QC never removed. So if I bought 200 disks at any one time, 10 or so of them would have been unusuable. You will never have this with TY or MCC stuff you pick up from B&M places.

It would have been crapping if I only said "this deal blows, ritek sux" - but I believe I've done a fair bit of explaining.
 
I have some TY02s that burn at 12x, but are listed as 4x. As Furballi said you may want to limit it to get the ebst burn tho.

And who was thread crapping? They were just saying there is better out there for a small amount more...and I gave 'em a link 🙂
 
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