CD-R Highest Quality Media? - Club CDFreaks

bevopa · 10-08-2006

Non-printed CD's, used for photos predominantly - Brand Recommedations? Taiyo, Ritek, Verbatim?

Thanks, Bevopa

*Mr. Belvedere* · 10-08-2006

I would recommend Tayo Yuden, because of the low error rates. But still make two copy of every cd and replace them at least once a year with two new copies if your data is too important to lose.

bevopa · 10-08-2006

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Originally Posted by Mr. Belvedere

I would recommend Tayo Yuden, because of the low error rates. But still make two copy of every cd and replace them at least once a year with two new copies if your data is too important to lose.

Many Thanks

**TimC** · 10-08-2006

Verbatim Pastels are a Taiyo Yuden dye & might be easier to find that branded TY CD-R.

Also Verbatim Super AZO , widely available, is pretty damn good as well.

**Arachne** · 10-08-2006

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Originally Posted by Mr. Belvedere

But still make two copy of every cd and replace them at least once a year with two new copies if your data is too important to lose.

Excellent advice from Mr. B

**mciahel** · 10-08-2006

Hi,

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Originally Posted by TimC

Verbatim Pastels are a Taiyo Yuden dye & might be easier to find that branded TY CD-R.

at least in good old Europe.

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Also Verbatim Super AZO , widely available, is pretty damn good as well.

But they are only second best, compared to the Pastels: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.ph...11&postcount=9

Michael

**DrageMester** · 10-08-2006

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Originally Posted by mciahel

But they are only second best, compared to the Pastels: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.ph...1&postcount=9l

You mean they are only second best in *your experience*, from the TY and MCC media you have tried in your drives. And thanks for sharing your results with us BTW.

In *my experience* they are equally good, with the TY beating MCC in some drives and MCC beating TY in other drives.

In any case they are both excellent and among the finest CD-R media available.

Cressida · 10-08-2006

Let's not forget to mention the Plextor CD-R's, which are Taiyo Yuden as well.

**mciahel** · 11-08-2006

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrageMester

You mean they are only second best in *your experience*, from the TY and MCC media you have tried in your drives.

Admitted.

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And thanks for sharing your results with us BTW.

You're welcome

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In *my experience* they are equally good, with the TY beating MCC in some drives and MCC beating TY in other drives.

Possibly a matter of Country of Origin? My MCC are MII.

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In any case they are both excellent and among the finest CD-R media available.

Yepp.

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Originally Posted by Cressida

Let's not forget to mention the Plextor CD-R's, which are Taiyo Yuden as well.

I thought about mentioning them, but they are harder to find (in local stores) than the Pastells.

Michael

*bcn_246* · 11-08-2006

I would also suggest creative a .sfv file for all the JPGs to do this. This will perform checksums on the JPGs to make sure that the files are exactly the same as the originals.

If you don't want to keep burning new copies and creating multiple CDs "just in case" you could create some .par2 recovery files, if the files then do have errors then it will almost certainly be able to recover them to the orignal state, providing the errors arn't massive. This is the method used when transfering files using binary download services, as chunks of the files are often not downloaded correctly or missing on the servers. 95% of the time PAR2 files are enough to recover the files. I would use a recovery amount of 5-10% for burning to optical media. The PAR2 files automaticly perform checksums, so creating a SFV isnt so important, however given a .sfv file is only a few Kb it can never hurt to make double sure.

I would use Easy SFV Creator
http://divxstation.com/softwareId.asp?sId=329

and QuickPAR
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

Both have GUIs and are very easy to use. As for media, I now only use Taiyo Yuden for important files. If you do find a file to be corrupt, make a disc image with some software that can ignore disc read errors (UltraISO, Alcohol 120, CloneCD etc.) Then mount the image on a virtual drive, try to copy the files over from the mounted image to a place on the hard drive. Open one of the par2 files, repair it, and burn a new copy.

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TimC Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Posts: 7,498	Re: CD-R Highest Quality Media? Verbatim Pastels are a Taiyo Yuden dye & might be easier to find that branded TY CD-R. Also Verbatim Super AZO , widely available, is pretty damn good as well.

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bcn_246 Top Referrer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Posts: 3,520	Re: CD-R Highest Quality Media? I would also suggest creative a .sfv file for all the JPGs to do this. This will perform checksums on the JPGs to make sure that the files are exactly the same as the originals. If you don't want to keep burning new copies and creating multiple CDs "just in case" you could create some .par2 recovery files, if the files then do have errors then it will almost certainly be able to recover them to the orignal state, providing the errors arn't massive. This is the method used when transfering files using binary download services, as chunks of the files are often not downloaded correctly or missing on the servers. 95% of the time PAR2 files are enough to recover the files. I would use a recovery amount of 5-10% for burning to optical media. The PAR2 files automaticly perform checksums, so creating a SFV isnt so important, however given a .sfv file is only a few Kb it can never hurt to make double sure. I would use Easy SFV Creator http://divxstation.com/softwareId.asp?sId=329 and QuickPAR http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ Both have GUIs and are very easy to use. As for media, I now only use Taiyo Yuden for important files. If you do find a file to be corrupt, make a disc image with some software that can ignore disc read errors (UltraISO, Alcohol 120, CloneCD etc.) Then mount the image on a virtual drive, try to copy the files over from the mounted image to a place on the hard drive. Open one of the par2 files, repair it, and burn a new copy. __________________ Click HERE to join CDFreaks... do it or I will dead you.

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