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Plexdisc CD-R on Optiarc AD-7561A
Burning the PlexDisc CD-R discs on some Slim IDE drives

Burning the PlexDisc CD-R discs on some Slim IDE drives

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Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well my 3 optical IDE slim drives handles the PlexDisc 700MB CD-R discs. The units we’ll be testing against this disc are the Optiarc AD-7561A, Teach DW-224E-C, and the Toshiba SD-R6252. Toshiba SD-R6252 Let’s start with the Toshiba SD-R6252. You may recall this drive failed to burn successfully the Verbatim CD-RW some time ago. The drive detects the disc just fine and gives us a burning speed of up to 16x: Starting to burn…

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The PlexDisc CD-R 100pk Spindle

The PlexDisc CD-R 100pk Spindle

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Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see the PlexDisc CD-R 100pk I got from Amazon some time ago: These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan, and holds 700MB of data or 80 minutes of audio. They can be burned at up to 52x, altough nowadays most writers burn them at up to 48x. The discs have a logo top: Here is how a single disc looks: It has a light green color on the data side. The discs seem to be well…

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The Verbatim CD-RW 25pk

The Verbatim CD-RW 25pk

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Hi everyone, A few days ago, I wrote I was trying to burn a Verbatim CD-RW on some old IDE drives. Today, I’m showing you the pack of these discs I got last year, which is what I’m still using to this date. These discs can be burned up to 12x. However, my drives can only burn them up to 10x. I don’t remember owning a drive that actually allowed me to burn at 12x. For some reason, they all…

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Burning a Verbatim CD-RW on some old Slim IDE drives

Burning a Verbatim CD-RW on some old Slim IDE drives

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Hi everyone, In this post, We’ll be looking at some Slim IDE drives and how well they work with a Verbatim CD-RW disc. The drives we will be seeing are the Optiarc AD-7561A, Teach DW-224E-C, and the Toshiba SD-R6252. I started first with the Toshiba SD-R6252 which is the drive with the oldest manufacturing date: This drive was manufactured on July 2004. In my tests, it seems to read DVDs fine, but it fails to read CD-Rs, often with an…

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Philips BD-R DL 50GB burned at 6x on Pioneer BDR-2212

Philips BD-R DL 50GB burned at 6x on Pioneer BDR-2212

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Hi everyone, In my last post of the Philips BD-R DL 50GB discs, I shared the quality scan of the discs burned at 8x on the Pioneer BDR-2212 drive. Here, I’m sharing the quality scans of these discs burned on the same drive at 6x. Overall, it is a good burn. As we saw in the previous post, it seems the drive manages to burn the second layer better. The LG drive, however, seems to have some spikes at the…

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Gigablock DVD+R DL 8x Blank Media

Gigablock DVD+R DL 8x Blank Media

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Note: I had this post written since the summer, but somehow forgot to publish it. I apologize for my lateness on publishing it. Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you the 50-pack Gigablock DVD+R DL media I brought on Amazon. This 50-pack cost about half the price of a standard 100-pack DVD+R spindle. They are rated at 8x. The discs do not come in a standard spindle, so you have to be very careful when opening it. They have a branded…

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Philips BD-R DL 10pk

Philips BD-R DL 10pk

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the Philips BD-R DL White Inkjet Printable Blu-Ray Recordable media: These discs were at a surprising price of just $9 dollars on Amazon, so I picked up 5 spindles of these. These discs holds up to 50GB and are rated to be burnt at up to 6x. Let’s take a look at the disc surface and label sides: The discs have the Philips brand at the center of the disc. Also, we…

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My 2nd Batch of Used BDXL discs

My 2nd Batch of Used BDXL discs

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On the past days, I wrote about having purchased an used spindle of 10 Verbatim BDXL discs. I mentioned that I had also ordered the same item again, but the used condition mentioned was “Like New”. Today, we’ll see my experience this time, which may or may not surprise you. The first thing is I received this item on an “Amazon Renewed” bag. The sticker is different from the “Amazon Inspected” one from my previous order: Visually looking, we can…

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The “Used” Verbatim BDXL discs

The “Used” Verbatim BDXL discs

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Hi everyone, Yesterday afternoon, I received the “Used – Good” Verbatim BDXL discs that I purchased last week. Today, we’ll see exactly what these discs really mean and if they are really used. First, we see the item arrived on a bag. Visually inspecting it from the bag it seems the packaging itself looks good. Indeed, it all looks good, except it isn’t really wrapped like new items are, so the spindle was actually opened already. The spindle package looks…

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Buying Used BDXL discs. What to expect?

Buying Used BDXL discs. What to expect?

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On the past few days, I ordered several quantities of BDXL discs to backup my recorded videos from the past years. These projects have varying sizes and some goes up to 1TB. This means I need several of these BDXL discs to back them up. When looking at the BDXL media on Amazon, I noticed they can be purchased “Used” straight from the Amazon Warehouse seller. A spindle of 10 discs cost $41.88, while the Used condition was at $36.85….

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