I HATE Memorex!
Posted:
Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:20 pmby MonsterMan
And Maxell...and every other company that likes to switch manufactures all the freakin' time.
I picked up two 50-packs of Memorex DVD-R's today at Best Buy (and, sadly, only one WD 500GB...the last one the had).
The one's I've seen before were CMC. Not great, for sure, but my one burner "liked" them.
These? RITEKF1.
Total, utter, 100% crap garbage media.
The Maxell 16x media I picked up awhile ago? Also crap (but CMC crap, that didn't burn ANYWHERE near as well as the Memorex CMC's I had).
From now on, Verbatium & unbranded media only!
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:29 amby hoxlund
congrats on that 500gb drive
we only had 3 to start the day
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:04 amby MonsterMan
hoxlund wrote:congrats on that 500gb drive
we only had 3 to start the day
No wonder neither of my local stores had any more...oh well. It woulda been nice to have two, but guess I'll just have to break down and get a 750GB
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:42 amby aviationwiz
I had some RITEKF1 that I burned for someone else in my PX-716A that I thought were pretty good, especially considering it's Ritek and all. If I still have the scan, I'll post it later.
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:49 pmby MonsterMan
Hmm, I'll try 'em in my Plex later then.
Right now, it's sitting on my desk...I need a bigger/better PSU to handle all the crap I have in my PC
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:30 pmby Scour
RitekF1 burns good in my Benq 1640 at full speed
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:10 pmby MonsterMan
Sigh...my Plex doesn't like 'em:
http://i7.tinypic.com/287emxf.png
Then again, maybe I'm just use to seeing stuff like
this and
this...
I'll try it in my 1655, but frankly don't want to use it in that drive...my two Benqs produce the best burns of any drive I've seen to date, so I tend to reserve them for the important data backups to high-quality discs only.
Man, I've gotta find a better image host
Posted:
Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:02 pmby aviationwiz
Posted:
Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:30 pmby MonsterMan
Mine sure don't burn that good
Posted:
Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:16 pmby Gen-An
MonsterMan wrote:Mine sure don't burn that good
Well, he
did burn them at 1/2 the speed you did. Maybe try 8x as well eh?
Posted:
Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:32 pmby MonsterMan
That's true, but the burner is starting off below 8x at the beginning of the disc; right at the beginning my discs are showing PIE >40. 8x probably won't help much. But I will try it anyway. Maybe the drive uses a completly different write stratagy...
