Re: Verbatim Cd-R's are junk!!

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:36:52 -0800

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:21:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

>On 3 Mar 2005 15:13:50 -0800, "Neil" <neilwrites2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>For anyone who has burned CD's for Music, or Data, I've found VERBATIM
>>CD'S are the worst. The average seek time is > 7 seconds for newly
>>burned discs. I thought I had a problem with my CD-RW Drive, so I
>>cleaned the optical laser with a cleaning CD, then lightly cleaned it
>>out with compressed air. I tried other brands from TDK, Maxell,
>>Imation, CD-R's and they all work fine.
>>
>>I also looked at the model of my player to make it was MULTI-READ
>>COMPLIANT, and it is. It appears that the stamped out( bright silver
>>surface type) CD's from the Software Companies work the best. The
>>average seek time is less then a couple seconds. These VERBATIM CD-R's,
>>the surface refectivity is very low, so the laser takes longer for it
>>to read the CD. If there was a mechanical problem with my drive, it
>>would of showed up on ALL the discs, not just Verbatim
>>CD-R's but it doesn't. My friend had the same problem with a burned
>>CD I gave him from the stack, and he has a Brand new SONY CD_RW/DVD
>>Writer Drive on his system.
>>
>>Avoid them like the plague! I'm thinking of dumping these CD-R's and
>>buying some others to replace them. You might have better luck with
>>your machine,model,make etc, but I will never buy these again!!
>>
>>For those who are wondering which ones I'm refering to, on the side of
>>the blue and white packaging, there is a reorder number# 95028
>>
>>I wrote Verbatim a Email,I notified them that there could be
>>manufacturing flaw with the CD-R's I got at christmas.
>>
>>No Reply!!
>>
>>-Neil
>
>Taiyo Yuden are the best, bar none. Costs slightly more than the
>junk, but worth it. I buy them a 100-pack at a time.
>
> ...Jim Thompson

We back up everything (entire company library) weekly onto a few
Office Depot DVDs, and they seem fine. The Brat discovered a cave
under our garage at home, so we take each week's backups and original
release media (floppies or CDs), pop into a ziploc, and throw into
that into a big cardboard box, one for each year. I figure that if we
have a server disaster, we'll figure out the mess then.

John