DVD media at newegg?

[dhlucke]

Ok, I like to do my shopping at newegg, although I suppose I could go to Frys if someone has a good suggestion there.

I am using a 811S right now and want to back up hundreds of gigs of video and audio.

What format should I do it in and what media should I use? I can't make heads or tails between the different formats and brands.

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[4Ryan6]

Daniel I use DVD-R 4X Burn Rate Media, I use the -R because so far its played back on every TV component DVD player I've tested it on, where as the +R would not play back on a couple, my personal player being one of them.

Every now and then you can catch some good bulk deals, I've used Fuji and Memorex and to tell you the truth I've been more impressed with Fuji than Memorex, but thats brand preference really, shy away from those super bulk packs, with brand names you never heard of before, cheaper is not better in these circumstances.

I've burnt a lot of disks and learned a lot the hard way, some of the most time consuming was successfully burning AVIs and MPEGs to DVD format, anything or questions you've got PM me, I'll be glad to help you. Ryan




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[Spitfire_x86]

IMO, -R is better for "R" burning, especially movie burning (because of wider compatibility with older players) and +RW is better for "RW" burning

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[dhlucke]

Ok, so if I'm ripping a movie to a dvd I should use -R, but for now I'm just backing up movies (say 4-5 movies per DVD so making a data disk). At this point I'm not worried about playing them on a DVD player.

To both of you, do you have any suggestions for that? Still -R?

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[LancerEvolution7]

It really doesn't matter which format you use if you just want to use it for backup purposes. Its more the quality of the disc that matters.

There is a lot of different brands of discs floating around and there is a difference between the el-cheapo discs and the high quality discs.\

If you like newegg, I'd suggest you use the Ritek's -R 4x discs that they sell. They are usually the choice for quality/price ratios. For more valuable backups I'd suggest using the Taiyo Yuden discs. They cost more but the overall quality is better.

 

[dhlucke]

I bought a 50 pack and will see how that goes. Thx!

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[Rob423]

newegg = Ritek 4x DvD-R = awesome = over 180 dvds burnt = not 1 failed = priceless!!

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[dhlucke]

The only thing that bothers me is that I have so much to backup that even DVD storage at 4.7 GB is too little. Plus there's always wasted space on each DVD since the files don't fill up the entire thing.

I'm gonna burn some now and then probably get a dual layer drive.

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[pat]

Why dont you get +RW for backup? They burn faster than -RW, and can be reused/updated much more than one time. 4X +RW media exist

But they are still slower than the fastest +R which are at 8X

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[Rob423]

if you have some serious backing up to do....... get another HD and copy everything on there...... and then burn everything on dvd's when the 9GB burners come out.

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[dhlucke]

Yeah, I'll probably get a dual layer burner but for now $25 backs up over 200GB of data so that's fine. I already have 320GB of HD space.

The ritek media has been fine and no coasters that I can tell.

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[Newbie237]

Got a question though, everybody seems to agree that Ritek's discs are good. What about long term degradation ? Has anybody seen problems after a while with their DVDs ? I've been told that some cheaper DVDs don't withstand time very well...

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[LancerEvolution7]

Ritek is not the best, its the most popular in terms of price and performance. I don't think anybody really did any tests on the life of dvd media, but Ritek should be fine. Major brands like TDK and Maxell sometimes brand Ritek discs and sell it under their name.

If you really don't mind spending a little more get Maxell or Taiyo Yuden discs as they are probably the best discs on the market right now.