In article <slrng5jom0.fai.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:
> >> And your suggestion is to use which brand? > > > > TDK and Verbatim work very well for me. > > TEAC works great for me, Verbatim are not the same everwhere, here > in Israel they are worthless. Office Depot (yes, we have them here) > had a buy 1 get one free sale for their media and no one bought them.
verbatim data life plus are not outsourced and should be the same everywhere. the cheapo verbatims can vary.
other manufacturers (including house brands) outsource so you never really know what you're getting. two packages of the same brand discs sitting next to each other on the shelf might be from entirely different manufacturers. either look at where it's made (made in japan is almost always good, made in taiwan is a crapshoot, elsewhere varies), or just shop for taiyo yuden discs (where 'made in japan' discs are usually made) on line.
> Old SCSI drives did not have buffer underrun protection, e.g. > "BurnSafe", so you should burn them at the slowest speed possible.
nonsense. many scsi burners have buffer underrun protection (both of mine did) and they can burn at any speed provided the host computer can source data that fast.
also, most discs these days are optimized for the higher burn speeds and burning too slow is actually worse than burning closer to their rated speed.
