Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burns in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH drive: This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 3x, 4x and 6x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 6x. Burning the disc seemed to have gone well until it switched to the 2nd disc layer: Unfortunately, the drive could not burn this disc successfully. I retried it and it seems this time it worked: This 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,…
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…
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…
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…
Hi everyone, The past few days, I brought the following products: I purchased the new PlexDisc CD-R Digital Audio discs that they mention are the best to store music. I’ll be reviewing it against the regular PlexDisc CD-R to see if they are really different, or are just the same but with the CD-R DA flag in them. Also, I’ll try them on my CD players to see if they do the initial seek faster. The other products I got…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the SmartBuy BD-R 25GB 50Pk Logo Top. These discs should be able to be burned at up to 6x. SmartBuy is a subsidiary of Ritek. These discs have a blue Logo Top: On the data side, they have a gold color: A few years ago, I recall that some gold-colored discs became corrupted due to corrosion. Since these discs are gold-colored too, I’ll be checking them after a while to make sure its…