what dvd media is most reliable?

blue&whiteman

blue&whiteman

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today I am going to be buying a pioneer dvdr drive because I know they are best (when it comes to macs at least).

i'm wondering what blank media has little to no coasters. my liteon cdrw only gives me coasters on cheap media. i'd say its about 5-10 disks per 50 spindle that fail if they are cheap. I want to avoid this with dvd and buy the good stuff.

recommendations?
 
I have had absolutely no problems with Apple's own media. 5-pk. 4x media is $10, 5-pk. 8x media is $15. Not too shabby. I buy the 4x media 4 packs at a time, and I have yet to burn a coaster.

Just be sure to use the correctly rated speed media with your drive. I'm assuming you're gonna get the DVR-107, so 8x media would be required for that drive. You can use 4x media, but, of course, you can only burn it at 4x.
 
thanks.

yes I am buying the 107 but till I get an ata 133 pci card I will only be burning at 4x (5.5MB/sec). the reason for this is my B&W has a built in ata16 bus for cd and zip and an ata33 for hd. once I get an ata 133 pci card I will put my hd on it and the dvdr on the ata33 and then start burning at 8x(11 MB/sec).

with my cdrw drive I sometimes had problems if I went over 40x (6 MB/sec). even though the optical drive bus is rated 16 MB/sec it really never goes past 6 MB/sec so i'm not going to throw 11 MB/sec at it. in my experience an optical drive bus will run at about 1/3 to 1/2 its rated speed on most occasions.

the ata33 should be more than enough for 8x burning. pretty much all optical drive bus on modern boards is currently ata33.

on my way now to buy the drive and 20-25 media. thanks again!
 
If you plan on making DVD movies to play in a "normal" DVD player, DVD-R media tends to work better as oppose to DVD+R media. The +/- is a pretty significant difference.
 
My understanding is that if you want the absolute best media, you want Taiyo Yuden. (google for various suppliers)

I keep a spindle of Taiyo Yuden media around for archival stuff and another spindle of "cheap" media for client one-offs.
 
I bought a spindle of 100 DVD-R on a dealmac ad for less than $80.00 and have no problem with them
 
I have the drive installed and working now. tried 3 disk so far and all had buffer under run errors for some reason. this is at 4x and I even tried 8x in toast 6 with the same result. just to see I copied the files on the disk back to the drive and they all transfered fine. so where is the eror if all data reads fine?

I ended up getting some cheap media because the guy insisted that with the 107 and 108 there is no such thing as bad media beause they are such great drives. I took his word and bought some with no label at all. nothing but a silver top.

odd it showed errors yet worked. all 3 times I got the error it was with 21 sec left on the burn. going to try apple disk burner at 4x and then toast at 2x if that doesn't work.

edit: apple disk burner worked perfect at 4x. think I will stick with it and delete toast since all I needed a dvdr drive for was backing up large amounts of data. toast for some reason was seeing the disks as having a 7.2 GB capacity which is impossible since the disks and drive are single layer. finder sees the disks as 4.28 GB and not 4.7 as it should. its dvd+r media btw.
 
If you want compatibility with the iApps, you need DVD-R media. Not RW, not +R, not +RW. DVD-R only.

DVD+R will be strictly data-only, unless you use Toast or 3rd-party burning software.

Which drive did you get? 107 or 108? The 107 is natively supported by Mac OS X, the 108 is not as of yet.
 
I got the 107. I have not tried idvd yet or anything but I don't even have it and I don't want the drive for such things. I burned an audio cd in itunes with it no problem on a normal cdr.

drive is fully osx compatible and even says under "Disc Burning" in system profiler "Apple Supported/Shipped"
 
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