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Ultimate Testing of Recordable DVD Media Discs (page 5)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 04/14/2005 | 08:08 PM ]

Digitex DVD+R 8x

To our regret, we can’t say anything positive about this one. Another disc manufactured by Optodisc proved to be indigestible by our test drive. The drive did identify the inserted disc and everything was normal until Nero Burning ROM gave out an error message that it couldn’t perform the burning. We took another sample of the same disc, but without success. It’s hard to name the reasons for this failure, but maybe the next firmware update will help?

Digitex DVD-R 8x

The last disc from Digitex in this review is, against our expectations, a product of such a renowned manufacturer as Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd.

The quality check brings disturbing results. The maximum of recoverable PI errors is within the norm, but instead of the allowable maximum of four PI failures we have as many as twenty here! You may note, however, that the quality problem persists on the first third of the disc, and the maximum of PI failures doesn’t exceed two elsewhere. So, it’s possible that other samples of this disc are going to show a better performance.