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Review by
Mark from
West London on
29/10/2007 00:18:12
Rating:
10 /10
Reliable and inexpensive disc
I would find it hard to disagree more with Paul if I was being paid. I too have been burning large quantities of discs for several years so I like to think that I know just a little bit about what makes a disc cheap or just plain cheap and nasty. This is an inexpensive disc which is still finished quite well. In the past 4 weeks I've gone through 1400 of these and 1100 Gigatain discs of a similar price from another site. Out of the 1400 discs I think I had about 6 or 7 fail burning at 6x on Samsung, Optiarc (NEC/Sony) and Pioneer drives. Roughly 1 in 40 of the Gigatains fail.
Maybe Paul had discs from a bad (VERY BAD) batch. Same thing happened with me with the cheap Datasafe TY discs, first 800 were great, ordered 2000 more and had to throw away 411. So, until I get a problem with these discs they get a well earned 10/10.
Review by
Paul Tucker from
Billingham on
17/10/2007 12:21:21
Rating:
2 /10
worst discs i've had in about 4 years ( not incl cheapy dual layers)
Please do not buy these discs, I bought about 300 of these to try as my favourite Infiniti's have been out of stock for quite some time.
I thought they may be quite good, as I have used small amounts of bulkpaq and other cheap brands in the past, and they would fail at 8x but so long as burnt them at 4x they would be fine.
With these, my first 2 tubs have burnt more or less fine, maybe 1 failure.
I then went half way thru my 3rd tub. I got 10 write fails in a row. I started thinking my writer was gone, however tried some other brand discs and all fine again. tried random amounts in that spindle and all failed, so about half of that spindle is knackered - naturally the more of them I try in there the more that fail.
I then tried the next tub, all fine, no failures in full spindle. Now onto tub 4 or 5 and the very first 2 on the tub are another failure (the failures always happen at around 64%, and I'm hoping not but it seems like this tub may be well and truly goosed too.
I have bought plenty of cheap media in the past, including other bulkpaqs but have never encountered this many problem discs, and of course, is it really worth the cost involved to send discs back, especially when you cant test them without wasting them and I presume they wont take back discs that have been written to, so they're a false economy and have cost more in failures than buying better discs.
Come on svp, get the infinitis back in stock, it's been weeks now.
Tested on LG GSA-H10N, LG GSA-H12N and Pioneer 108
*** SVP Tech Note ***
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Review by
Robert Mumford from
Ramsey Mereside on
12/10/2007 19:33:55
Rating:
10 /10
Superb Quality
I used to buy Be All Best blank DVd's but I found that the picture would pixelate on every disc. I purchased a pack of these and so far have had no problems. They play perfectly. Recording wise I use a NEC 7170S, I cannot fault this writer.
Review by
Chris from
Peterborough on
22/08/2007 15:22:43
Rating:
10 /10
Great disk and Great value
Have just burned 100 of these at 12x on my pioneer 112D v1.21 using nero and not had one coaster, just ordered another hundred
Review by
Tony from
Kent on
10/07/2007 21:45:08
Rating:
10 /10
Very Impressed with these discs - A Great Bargain
I ordered 600 of these a little while ago and was very impressed with them - only a handful of coasters as most of them were read errors only had 2 write errors. I am using a Pioneer 111 & 112 and a couple of Nec drives. I even get the option to burn at x12 on the pioneer drives.
I usually use the G05 dye discs and was a little sceptical of the bulkpaq brand as I have had issues with their discs before but these have made me forget about that, I am back for 1200 of them now so you can see how I was impressed with them - great value for money.
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