I vote for the Verbatim too. I usually use those white printable surface (Part No.
94366). I've burnt around 300 of those and virtually no failure rate. Many friends
I've recommended to this particular one had no complain either. In fact, they
continued using it. Though, the downside is it's definitely more costly then any
other CDR. But if it's something you want to archive, you definitely don't want them
to die off that easily.
Huan
>>> Philip Charles<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/11/2003 05:08:31 pm >>>
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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