CD-R media, CD-RW, DVD+R e DVD+RW Sony

With the popularity of pendrives and External HDs, My use of optical media was drastically reduced. But eventually still need to use them: installation of operating systems, recovery discs, diagnosis, etc. At such times I was half upset of having to use my older media, great quality, to record content that does not need to be preserved for a long time, because they will have limited use until they are out of date. I prefer to let the great quality of media to backup important things, as wedding videos, graduations, and for the world titles of the glorious club which is the only triple world champion in Brazil. 🙂

When we talk about quality, take into account this excellent review of quality media. My old media are considered first class, as manufactured by Sony Daxon. I bought CD-R and DVD + R from Sony first class tube still in the past decade, and with little use they are lasting till today. But the Daxon stopped manufacturing in media 2010, thereafter the media of Sony became the only second-class, manufactured by Ritek and by Moser Baer.

Find in-class media market today is almost impossible mission, so I chose to make a new media stock of second class to use in daily life, leaving the first class that had to premium content. Furthermore, invest also in rewritable media to use content that will only be used infrequently or that need to be updated frequently, like memtest86.

And this was my purchase, with 50 CD-R, 50 DVD R, 25 CD-RW, and 25 DVD RW

Sony CD-R

Came the Sony CD-Rs manufactured by Moser Baer in India, código 50CDQ80SB. Recording at up to 48X. Check out the photos and the information extracted with DVDInfoPro:

Sony DVD+R

The DVD + R from Sony are manufactured by Ritek in Taiwan, considered second class. Recording at up to 16X. Has no code on the packaging.

Sony CD-RW

No caso dos CD-RW da Sony, these media came from PNY / Office Depot, fabricadas no Taiwan. Código 25CRW80SP. Recording at up to 4X.

Sony DVD+RW

Por fim, DVD + RW Sony are also of Ritek, and record at up to 4X. Código 25DPW47SP.