On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Back in the days of 5.25" floppies my father worked in IT
> and he always used nothing but Verbatim, swearing they're
> the best brand.
>
> Now I see Verbatim 3.5" disks and CD-Rs for sale, and I
> wonder if this still holds.
> I ran 'mcheck a:' on a bunch of old floppies I found in a
> drawer and the verbatim ones were error free while other
> brands had bad blocks.
>
> The Verbatim CD-Rs are about 2~3 times the price of other
> brands.
> Anyone got any experience with recently made Verbatim
> products?
>
> <ObLinux> I'm wanting to burn some Linux ISOs to CD-R
> and I want a good brand of media.
I have used Verbatim over the last few years and not had any reason to
change.
I bought an el cheapo spindle of Datalot for development work - burn,
install, throw out. They did what I wanted, but 5-10% had read errors.
Phil.
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