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The PlexDisc BD-R 25GB 50-pack Blu-Ray spindle – Logo Top

The PlexDisc BD-R 25GB 50-pack Blu-Ray spindle – Logo Top

Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the PlexDisc BD-R 25GB 50-pack spindle: These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan. This spindle is the Logo Top variation, but they also come with a White Inkject Printable surface. The data side is gold-colored: These discs can hold up to 25GB of data and can be burned at up to 6x. They have a media code of OTCBDR-002-000, indicating they are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan. Later, we will be seeing how well…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH

Hi everyone, Today, we’ll take a look at how the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the LiteOn (PLDS) DU-8A5LH. This drive was taken temporarily out of a Dell laptop and is a 9.5mm drive: We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at up to 8x here. This drive seem to not support setting up the DVD+R Book Type manually but it seems it does it…

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The SpeedX BD-R DL discs

The SpeedX BD-R DL discs

Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the SpeedX BD-R DL discs. I got these on eBay last month. They are dual layer Blu-Ray discs that can hold up to 50GB and can be officially burned at up to 6x: These have a White Inkjet Printable surface: On the bottom side, they look similar to the Philips BD-R DL discs I reviewed some time: In fact, they have the same media code: CMCMAG-DI6-000. This means that SpeedX is sourcing their…

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The SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB discs and burning it in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

The SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB discs and burning it in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Hi everyone, Today, we will see the SmartBuy BD-RE 25GB disc. This is a rewritable, single-layer Blu-Ray disc that can hold up to 25GB of data. Rewritable discs are the slowest Blu-Ray media available, only allowing them to be burnt at up to 2x speed. This is my first time using a rewritable Blu-Ray disc, so we’ll see how it performs in my Panasonic UJ-260 drive. The discs comes in a 10-disc spindle: Similar to the SmartBuy BD-R 25GB discs,…

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Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burn in the Panasonic UJ-260 drive: This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 2.4x and 6x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 6x. Burning the disc seem to have gone well: This drive burns dual layer discs using a Z-CLV strategy. It starts burning at 2.4x, then increasing the speed to 4x, and finally reaching 6x. On the second layer, it…

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Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive

Burning the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB disc in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive

Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burn in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 2.4x and 4x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 4x. Burning the disc seem to have gone well: While in the very first image I realized it doesn’t show the burning speed, it was actually burning at 2.4x. Same as the last image, since the drive burns in…

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The SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50 disc Spindle

The SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50 disc Spindle

Hi everyone, Today, We’ll see the SmartBuy DVD+R DL 8.5GB 50-disc spindle. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek Corporation. These discs can hold up to 8.5GB of data and can be burned at up to 8x. These have a logo top: On the data side, they have a dark purple color: The Media Code of these discs is RITEK-S04-66: In some of my next few posts, we’ll see how these discs burn and scan on some of my drives. Look…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

Hi everyone, Today, we’ll take a look at how the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. We will be using ImgBurn again to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at up to 8x here. The drive burned the disc using a Z-CLV strategy, starting at 2.4x, and jumping to 4x, 6x, and 8x: The disc appeared to have burnt fine, but the quality results seem to point…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7740H

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7740H

Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well the PlexDisc DVD+R discs that I showed you yesterday burns in the Optiarc AD-7740H. This is a drive I took out from a Lenovo laptop that’s now part of my optical drive collection. I already have an Optiarc AD-7561A from a very old HP laptop, so this is actually my 2nd Optiarc drive. We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and…

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The PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle

The PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle

Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle I got on December 2020. These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan. These discs can be burned at up to 16x but some recorders may offer speeds higher than this. This spindle contains 100 discs: They are logo top branded. The bottom side has a purple color, as expected on Recordable DVD media: In the inner ring, they have an Optodisc identifier: In my next post, we’ll…

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