I NEED GOOD DISCS!!
Posted: 2006-05-09 06:41pm
Title capitalized for emphasis.
I recently bought a stack of RiDATA "16x" DVDs from Newegg, and have now witnessed just how much they suck. I mean, they suck. Hard. People here would be impressed at how much they suck.
First off, to start the nonsense, when Nero comes up I see the maximum burning speed for these discs reduced to 12x. On EVERY one of them. That's okay, I asked a friend about this, and he says something about "calibration problem", which I just pass off as a manufacturer's mistake. Turns out that mistake would just grow bigger.
I then start the burning. First two discs come out okay, though when I copy tested them the writing speed was slightly slower, but that's a result of Nero burning at 12x. Third disc, within the first five seconds of copying, CRC ERROR. I throw it off as a defective DVD, every stack comes with at least one or two. I put in the fourth disc and copy test it again, CRC error on the fourth file. Fifth disc, CRC error again...
So, I'm going to continue sifting through these until I finally find an intact disc, but I doubt that they're going to get much better. Can someone link me to a stack of good-quality 16x DVDs? I use DVD+R, no dual layers. I simply don't trust these things now...
Thanks very much.
I recently bought a stack of RiDATA "16x" DVDs from Newegg, and have now witnessed just how much they suck. I mean, they suck. Hard. People here would be impressed at how much they suck.
First off, to start the nonsense, when Nero comes up I see the maximum burning speed for these discs reduced to 12x. On EVERY one of them. That's okay, I asked a friend about this, and he says something about "calibration problem", which I just pass off as a manufacturer's mistake. Turns out that mistake would just grow bigger.
I then start the burning. First two discs come out okay, though when I copy tested them the writing speed was slightly slower, but that's a result of Nero burning at 12x. Third disc, within the first five seconds of copying, CRC ERROR. I throw it off as a defective DVD, every stack comes with at least one or two. I put in the fourth disc and copy test it again, CRC error on the fourth file. Fifth disc, CRC error again...
So, I'm going to continue sifting through these until I finally find an intact disc, but I doubt that they're going to get much better. Can someone link me to a stack of good-quality 16x DVDs? I use DVD+R, no dual layers. I simply don't trust these things now...
Thanks very much.