Best and worst DVD media for multiburner?

[pipspeak]

Does anyone have any advice on the most reliable DVD recordable media to use with the T43's multiburner (UJ-822)?

For example, the drive will burn both DVD-R and DVD+R but I've heard that the + media is prone to more problems, particularly reading in other drives. Any truth to this?

I have also heard that some fast DVD-R media (16x and some 8x) will not work terribley well (or at all) with such a 2/2.4x burner. Again, true?

Any tips appreciated. Thanks.

[smugiri]

You can find what you need here. Seems that the best media are the RITEK branded here as Fuji, they actually manufacture for lots of other people who then re-brand their disks.

I just thought that I should add that I have been using Fuji media, the white blanks that are designed for printing on ). I am on my 4th spindle of 50 and not a single coaster so far ( apart from one time when I did a stupid and tried to burn files with weird non standard characters in the file name - the burner puked on closing the media and tossed it out.

[pipspeak]

Thanks for the link... it looked promising but only came up with one media type for the UJ-822 -- the Ritek -- even when I left all fields blank for a blanket search.

Still, I trawled through all the other reports for other burners. Seems TY and Maxell get consistently the best reports in general. Bummer, cuz I just bought a bunch of Verbatims!

[smugiri]

Yeah, well, I am arguing that one good hit is enough, you do not have to get to know all the types that work, you just have to know one that you can try and know that you will not have trouble with. It's not like you can buy one spindle of say four recommended brands and try them all. I am just arguing that the Ritek is an almost guranteed bet, come cheap and you can find lots of matching branded versions ( starting with the Fuji ). You can get the Fuji media at Sam's Club for about $16-18 for a spindle of 50.

[pipspeak]

Good to know. Do you use the Ritek 4x or 8x? They seem to get polar opposite reviews... 4x are well liked but the 8x are not.

[RonS]

Check out www.NoMoreCoasters.com

[smugiri]

Very good point on the speed: I use the 4x since my burner is 4x. Anytihng faster is wasted on me ...

[Esben]

From my DVD media research, I came to the conclusion that the DVD media regarded as the best, is the official Taiyo Yuden discs.
Personally, I've used Datawrite 8x Grey based on FUJI003 dye, for burning close to 200 DVDs, without problems. IIRC it's a year or more since I bought my load of media, so times might have changed.

[C.Schlehaus]

Hi,
I had a T42p with the DVD multiburner and changed to the T43p with the Multiburner+. Meanwhile I have swappped the drives as the mutliburner as of the T42p seems to be the more robust and failure tolerant drive. I had many trouble with the multiburner+ to read DVDs which work fine with the multiburner (I already got a replacement for the multiburner+ of Lenovo to exclude any hardware fault).
Are there any known issues with the multiburner+ to require "higher quality" DVDs than the T42p's multiburner?
I use Verbatim DVDs currently and these cause DVD failures on the multiburner+.
Carlhermann

[edelrc]

Ritek never has caused me any problem at all. So far has been the best I have tested.

Sony media (I like its clean look better than Ritek's) unfortuatelly has been less reliable in quality. For instance, I had many CD from a whole springle that chiped out the protective layer in the corners. They burned fine but now they are useless in the outer sectors.

Verbatim were fine, but not that many used as the two previous brands.

Note:
For those with the T42 multiburner, DVD-RW 4X media do not work in our drives until firmware upgrade.