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to record content that does not need to be preserved for a long time, because they will have limited use until they are out of date.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
CD-R media, CD-RW, DVD+R e DVD+RW Sony
CD-R media, CD-RW, DVD+R e DVD+RW Sony
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:
Media Information
Current Drive: SONY DVD RW AD-7280S (L:)
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 736966656
Free Capacity 702.83MB/736.97M
Media Type CD-R
ATIP Start Time of Lead In (Media Code) 97m17s 6f
ATIP Last Possible Start Time of Lead Out 79m59s74f
Manufacturer Name Moser Baer India, Ltd.
HD-BURN Certified YES
Available Write Descriptor CLV 48.0x 7200KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 40.0x 6000KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 32.0x 4800KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 24.0x 3600KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 2400KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 1200KBps
Pack of 50 CD-R Sony
Pack of 50 CD-R Sony
Pack of 50 CD-R Sony
Pack of 50 CD-R Sony
Pack of 50 CD-R Sony
CD-R Sony
CD-R Sony
CD-R Sony no 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.
Media Information
Current Drive: SONY DVD RW AD-7280S (L:)
Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO
Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEK F16
Media Product Revision Number 01h
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 405405696
Free Capacity 4.38GB/4.70GB
Book Type DVD+R
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBp
Available Write Descriptor CLV 16.0x 22160KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 12.0x 16620KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 8.0x 11080KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 6.0x 8310KBps
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps
Data area starting sector 30000h
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1
Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 52 49 54 45 4B 00 00 00 46 .......RITEK...F
00000020 31 36 01 38 23 54 37 12 02 50 6It 02 8C 68 16 16 16.8#T7..Pn..h..
00000030 0B 0B 0A 0A 01 1D 1E 0C 0C 12 12 01 00 00 00 00 ................
Pack of 50 DVD+R Sony
Pack of 50 DVD+R Sony
DVD+R Sony
DVD+R Sony
DVD+R Sony no DVDInfoPro
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.
Media Information
Current Drive: SONY DVD RW AD-7280S (L:)
Format Capacity Blank Disc
Free Blocks 736966656
Free Capacity 702.83MB/736.97M
Media Type CD-RW
ATIP Start Time of Lead In (Media Code) 97m10s 0f
ATIP Last Possible Start Time of Lead Out 79m59s74f
Manufacturer Name PNY/Office Depot
HD-BURN Certified NO
Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 600KBps
Pack of 25 CD-RW Sony
Pack of 25 CD-RW Sony
Pack of 25 CD-RW Sony
CD-RW Sony
CD-RW Sony
CD-RW Sony no DVDInfoPro
Sony DVD+RW
Por fim, DVD + RW Sony are also of Ritek, and record at up to 4X. Código 25DPW47SP.
Current Drive: SONY DVD RW AD-7280S (L:) Region information N/A not a DVD-VIDEO Media code/Manufacturer ID RITEK 004 Media Product Revision Number 30h Format Capacity Blank Disc Free Blocks 405405696 Free Capacity 4.38GB/4.70GB Book Type DVD+RW Media Type DVD+RW Manufacturer Rated Speed 4.0x 5540KBps Available Write Descriptor CLV 4.0x 5540KBps BG Format Status Blank Disc Data area starting sector 30000h Linear Density 0.267um/bit Track Density 0.74um/track Number of Layers 1
Pack of 25 DVD+RW Sony
Pack of 25 DVD+RW Sony
Pack of 25 DVD+RW Sony
DVD+RW Sony
DVD+RW Sony
DVD+RW Sony no DVDInfoPro
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I bought online some SONY DVD+R thinking I will get those white labeled blanks I used for 5-10 years with absolutely no issue, but instead I got those awful RITEK ones. Mine are with blue and green label, so I suppose there are also other colour besides mine and yours. I failed 7 blanks trying to burn them at 16x, 8x and 4x on several burners I have, until I tried at the damn-low 2.4x, which is where they stopped failing. My burners are very old, the newest is manufactured in 2008, so it’s whether the laser getting lower for these newer dye technology (Fuji Oxonol Dye) nor the older drives are incompatible with this new dye and/or technology. But fortunately I found a fix for not throwing away all the 300 blanks I have purchased. It’s pretty hard nowadays to find high quality blanks, even the Verbatims and TDKs are shitty nowadays. Cheers!
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