CDR Media Factory (Manufacturer) Question

[SuperG]

Hi all, I am sure this question has been asked before, but which Factory of CDR makers is the best? I have some stuff stored, that I would really like to keep for a long time. I am not one of those people who throw their CDs around. All of my important CDR's are in cases or sleeves. But I have heard of certain manufacturers whose CDRs loose their chemical formula, etc., and the CDR becomes partially/fully unreadable. Now, the one factory that I know is suppose to be very good is Taiyo Yuden Company Limited. But after that, I am a little confused. A while back, I ran into a site dedicated to CD Media, which is http://www.cdmediaworld.com and they actually did a CDR quality test, which is here http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_quality.shtml Now it looks as though this test is a little out of date, but Taiyo Yuden is considered good by them as well. But, the confusion for me begins at Ritek. Basically, on this site, ALL of Ritek's CDRs were considered VERY BAD, and they all failed the aging test. However, reading on some other places/forums, I have seen people say that Ritek along with Taiyo Yuden are the BEST. This is very confusing to see one where it says WORST and the other say BEST. If anyone can clear this up, I would appreciate it. Also, if anyone could look thru the following list, and rate what they think of these Manufacturers, it would help me greatly. 1) Taiyo Yuden (I have heard VERY GOOD) 2) Kodak (I have heard VERY GOOD, but they have stopped producing) 3) Ricoh (I have heard VERY GOOD) 4) CMC Magnetics (I have heard BAD, OK, and GOOD) 5) TDK (I have heard OK - GOOD) 6) Mitsubishi (I have heard OK) 7) Ritek (I have heard VERY BAD and VERY GOOD)??? 8) Fornet (I have heard VERY BAD) 9) Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals (I have heard VERY GOOD) 10) Princo (I have heard BAD) 11) FUJI Photo Film (I have heard OK) 12) Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (I have heard OK) 13) Prodisc (I have heard BAD) 14) Multi Media Masters & Machinery SA (I have heard VERY BAD) 15) Seantram Technology (I have heard VERY BAD) 16) Gigastorage Corp. (I have heard VERY BAD) I know this is a lot of companies, but I wanted to be very thorough. I have run accross EVERY single one of these companies at one point or another. And I want to know what everyone thinks of them, so that I can transfer some important information from one of these BAD manufacturers to a GOOD one. Thank You. SuperG.

[SirQUK]

1) Taiyo Yuden - Extremely good ( they make plextor media ) 2) Kodak - used to be very good for playstation games 3) Ricoh - not bad but not my favourite 4) CMC Magnetics - bad life expectancy 5) TDK - Very good and reliable but not always work in car cd players 6) Mitsubishi - one i havent tried7) Ritek ( Fornet (I have heard VERY BAD) 9) Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals (I have heard VERY GOOD) 10) Princo - dont burn these past there rated speed 11) FUJI Photo Film - not tried 12) Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. yes ok discs 13) Prodisc (Very bad 14) Multi Media Masters & Machinery SA - not tried 15) Seantram Technology - not tried 16) Gigastorage Corp. - awful in my experience

[Roadworker]

Mitsubishi (Chemicals)= very good! Doesn't Verbatim ring a bell,SirQUK??

[mitsui]

[quote="SirQUK"] 1) Taiyo Yuden - last 70-100 years, best disc after mitsui 2) Kodak - lasts over 100 years, higher errors than mitsui, no longer made 4) CMC Magnetics - bad quality disc, won't last, unstable dye 5) TDK - there are the the good ones made by TDK and the bad ones made by Ritek for TDK. You need the program cdr identifier to tell you which one you have. The good ones are similar in quality to Taiyo Yuden, the ritek ones are crap. The TDK 'Reflex' ones are also the good ones. I've seen the exact same disc surface graphics be made by tdk and ritek so you should buy one disc to see if it's a real TDK. 6) Verbatim - made by mitsubishi, these are expected to last no more than half of what the taiyo yuden discs are rated for. 30-50 years isn't that bad. 7) Ritek - crap discs, unstable dye, they won't last long, some people have had them crap out after 3 years. Doubtful they'll last more than 10 years. Fornet - absolutely worst discs I've come across. Static background noise suddenly appeared on these after a few days. 9) Mitsui - the best disc on the planet. lasts over 100 years, best compatability with every CD player, even the older ones. 10) Princo - another crap disc like ritek & cmc. 11) FUJI Photo Film - excellent quality disc. the european discs are lower quality than the north american ones. 12) Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. - not a good disc, maxell discs have had problems right from the start. these won't last. 13) Sony - one vendor advertised a 10 year life for these - not good. Ritek also makes alot of the european official release dvd's. Those will not last.

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