im just wondering about these disk ritek g05's they have these on sale at office depot bogo and i can get 300 of them for $60 so i want to make sure they are stable cause i read that they have been loseing data with in 2 months after begin burned and i wanted your feedback about them cause ritek has been great for me in the past.

Many, of us here have clearly documented how some Ritek G05s have decayed after just a few months and become unreadable. There does not seem to be a specific characteristic we can find that will identify how to avoid these bad discs. Although not all G05s are bad, there are more than enough to be a serious problem, especially as you never know that they will die until months after the burn.

Based on this problem, as well as a series of other really bad discs, it would be prudent to avoid Ritek altogether.

I would get some Ricoh from Allmediaoutlet.com. They are superb, at 4X, very good at 8X, and sell for $19 after a ricoh4off coupon.

http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/allmed...group-1892.htm

ok thinks i will be sure to avoid the dvd-rs then i heard the + was better but sould i chance it?

Yo-

No-

Mike

just wonderd cause on fatwallet they said +'s was good - was'nt and when i bought the -'s the +'s were all sold out which usely its always -'s that sell first

g05 i wouyld have to say no, only because thats whats been proven from users of it

So far my R03s have been OK, but I have no reason to trust Ritek anymore. They got me twice, with G04s and G05s, and that is all they get. Besides, these days I can get Verbatim MCC 003s for the same price as R03s

Same feeling here. Even if the +R seem to not have these issues associated with their -R, I'm done with Ritek.

I still bought Maxell-branded G05 until recently, now even with these I started having problems.

When TY and MCC are so cheap these days, why bother with uncertainities. Maybe Ritek, which HAS the capacities and savoir-faire to manufacture great discs, will sometime get back to serious work. Until then, I pass.

Couldn't have said it better.

I have to remove my recommendation for these Ricohs. I got a few superb burns and then 7 bad burns in a row, on 4 different burners. Guess some of these were defective.

guess i must be lucky then aint had a problem with ritek go5 no discs gone bad either supose it depends on your burner go3 and go4s still ok as well i try to avoid all fullface printables carnt prove it for definate but they deffo aint as good in my eyes what i would advise is if it works stick with it as long as you can the ones to avoid are tuffdisc , titainium and bulcrap imho

Nothing suprising. There are many good G05 out there. I have about 60 totally stable Traxdata and Maxell G05s. The problem is you never know what you'll get next. Also what I don't like is the fact it's sneaky: great burn, so you don't worry, then unreadable disc after several weeks... ouch. I prefer having coasters right from the start, at least they're in the trash and re-burned, not a time bomb in my movie collection

Yo Francksoy-

I agree with you 100%-eh!

Mike

me too, total agreement!

Absolutely!