dbminter Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 If anyone needed proof to avoid Ritek DVD+R DL's and use only Verbatim, I have empirical evidence. Before I knew that Verbatim DVD+R DL's were the only way to go, I got some Office Depot Ritek DVD+R DL's in 2008. I went back to read 3 of them today. Of the 3, only 1 was readable to an image file. One of the others was recognized as a disc in File Explorer, but couldn't read all of the contents off of it. The other one was complete unrecognizable as a disc in File Explorer. The drive light kept flashing for 5 minutes before the drive timed out trying to read it. File Explorer simply returned that it was a DVD and did not recognize any contents. So, stop using those Memorex CMC and other companies' Ritek DVD+R DL's! They may complete a burn and verify, but 7 years later, they will most likely not be readable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted April 11, 2015 Author Share Posted April 11, 2015 But, you want to know the weird thing? Shortly after I got the Office Depot Ritek DVD+R DL's, I got some TDK Ritek DVD+R DL's before I realized Verbatims were the only way to go. I've been copying those TDK's made shortly after the Office Depot discs to BD-R's to save what I could and all 8 of the TDK's I've copied so far read to image files! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 And all 15 of my TDK Ritek DVD+R DL fully ready to image files without error! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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