Who Makes the Best Inorganic BD-R?

[DarthBobo]

I'm looking to buy some BD-Rs as I'm running out, but I've noticed that shopping around for HTL BD-Rs isn't sufficient to guarantee that I'm buying BD-Rs with 100% inorganic dyes in them as there is now a category of dye called "composite" which implies a mix of organic and inorganic. These "composite" dye discs either register as HTL or are marketed as such. See this reviewer's comments on Amazon.

The other problem is that manufacturers seem to be cryptic these days as to what they're actually using.

All I want is an all-purpose BD-R ideal for archiving but won't bust the bank.

I feel like the "safe" buy would be Verbatim's DataLife Plus line of BD-Rs which seem to be their "professional" line of BD-Rs. But I'm not certain these days as no one manufacturer seems to be really forthcoming. I'm having doubts.

Brands I have typically bought are: Verbatim, TDK, or Memorex.

Any help from a subject matter expert or a point to an online database / forum that specializes in this topic would be would be greatly appreciated.

 

[larryccf]

verbatim disks have worked fine for me - last time i bought, spindles of 100 were $0.83 per disk.

for economy, i've also used Optical Quantum BD-R disks, about $0.54 per

interesting part though, when trying the burn the OQ disks in a LG 12.7MM writer, i'd get 3-4 failures out of 5 disks. In a full size chassis, ie a 5.25" internal LG burner, 100% success rate - point is, be sure you're running a decent burner - apparently the laptop burner isn't rigid enough for the disks to track accurately

if you ask on the audio video forums like avsforum.com you'll get other brand suggestions as well

fwiw

 

[DarthBobo]

verbatim disks have worked fine for me - last time i bought, spindles of 100 were $0.83 per disk.

for economy, i've also used Optical Quantum BD-R disks, about $0.54 per

interesting part though, when trying the burn the OQ disks in a LG 12.7MM writer, i'd get 3-4 failures out of 5 disks. In a full size chassis, ie a 5.25" internal LG burner, 100% success rate - point is, be sure you're running a decent burner - apparently the laptop burner isn't rigid enough for the disks to track accurately

if you ask on the audio video forums like avsforum.com you'll get other brand suggestions as well

fwiw

The problem I worry about is whether you're getting 100% inorganic dye for 83 cents per disc.

I'm using a 12x Asus Blu-Ray burner. It's been decent so far.

To my amazement, no tech website such as Anandtech, Tech Report, or Tom's has even done an evaluation of discs. Maybe there's not enough interest?

Thanks for the tip on AVSForum. I'll post there to see what I get in the way of a response. I was hoping someone knew of some obscure website that keeps tallies on good and bad discs and citing which ones are truly 100% inorganic.

 

[corkyg]

Looks like Verbatim has both - note the stock ID differences.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1160275

 

[dlerious]

The problem I worry about is whether you're getting 100% inorganic dye for 83 cents per disc.

I'm using a 12x Asus Blu-Ray burner. It's been decent so far.

To my amazement, no tech website such as Anandtech, Tech Report, or Tom's has even done an evaluation of discs. Maybe there's not enough interest?

Thanks for the tip on AVSForum. I'll post there to see what I get in the way of a response. I was hoping someone knew of some obscure website that keeps tallies on good and bad discs and citing which ones are truly 100% inorganic.

http://club.myce.com/ has forums with test results for blank media

 

[larryccf]

........ I was hoping someone knew of some obscure website that keeps tallies on good and bad discs and citing which ones are truly 100% inorganic.

actually, iirc, there were more than one study done of the life expectancy of various disks, whether CD, DVD or BD - one was done by the french gov't. The AVS forum had linked to them a couple of times