Verbatims for $15

[NightTran]

they burn but you can check by CD speed with nero, quality go down with faster speed, I burn with dvdd start with 1X then it goes up slowly to 6X you only save a few minutes per burn, if you want to burn fast check with Chewy, He is the best with burn fast. I just dont want to risk

[drfsupercenter]

Oh yeah apparently there is a "write signature" or something that you are supposed to stick to. Apparetly Nero can find that.

[Chewy]

I wouldn't waste one of my verbs on this but here's a soso ritek burned as a data disk in the king of speed burners(+ disks take 10-15 seconds longer)
notice the dips as the burner ramps up the speed, the graph is only showing burn speed here

[Chewy]

now a scan of that disk in my benq, notice what happens at the speedups
the LG burned a 97 on TY media
to burn at 16x requires the perfect combination of media and burner/firmware

moral of story, be safe, don't burn over 8x

[drfsupercenter]

Hmmm... that is what the site said, they said that most discs are like that but the MCC-004's are specially made to handle 16x... yada yada. I could always test it with one of my backups and then scan it with Nero. Not sure how to read those graphs and tell good or bad, except for the one with the green, yellow, and red squares, but I can just post it and let you decide.

[drfsupercenter]

Tested on 16x... ImgBurn never got above 13x, and average was 10x. What the heck? Anywho, you can see the color changes on the bottom of the disc from burn speeds, will test the disc in Nero soon. Interesting that the device buffer varied inversely from the burn speed.

--EDIT-- Alright, results are in.




Not sure why Disc Quality doesn't work... Start is greyed out:

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1659/tsstcorpcddvdwtsh552uus0615jan2.png

[ironD]

I use those MCC004's quite a bit. I have good results with them. It may be my own problem, but if I try and burn 16x the burn could come out great or not so good. I try and stick with 8x with those and have great results.

D

[drfsupercenter]

Chewy, what do these results mean? The top one's kinda obvious but you are the expert... tell me what you get out of those scans!

[Chewy]

your drive and firmware dropped the ball at 8x speed, those samsung
aren't very good, like i told you before

your drive doesn't support the disk quality scan

to really test you need the latest firmware if available and make a data disk
with cdspeed, then benchmark
don't waste a verbatim, use a memorex

[Chewy]

here's what happens when a premium burner that's picky is matched with
a crappy disk made in hong kong with a great mid code, the burner expects TY 8x+R media, it's trying to fix the burn(a lot) as it goes along.

[drfsupercenter]

yeah but the Verbatims claim to be able to handle a 16x burn - the Memorexes are 8x discs. And don't consider it "wasted"... I got a perfectly good burn out of it. Would my dad's Sony USB burner support the quality scan?

Woah, that pic is interesting... mine did not drop off that many times, just at the end.

And, if my drive only supports up to 8 (it says 16x on the box LOL), why would it go up to 13x and then go back down? Why not keep going up?

[Chewy]

yours was not the same kind of test, you scanned an already burned disk,
wait I am scanning mine now, mine was a graph of the burn

[Chewy]

now here's the same test you used, the transfer, see how smooth it is,
that's where all that work my benq did paid of, it's trying to make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear.

[Chewy]

now here's why a true sportsman uses the better hardware while hunting the blue kangaroo!



chewy's fast and furious scan

[drfsupercenter]

LOL! What is the yellow line for? It stays the same... and what is the red vertical line for?

As soon as I finishing shrinking one of my Star Wars DVDs, I will test an unburned disc as you did.

Like I asked before, would my dad's Sony USB burner support the Disc Quality?

--EDIT-- Oh I get it, the red line is the end of the disc. What about the yellow?