I burned 2 spindles of Office Depot +16x. 50 for 50 on first spindle.Second spindle I ran into 3 burn errors on 2 of my benqs.After carefully inspecting those backups,there seemed to be a defect on those 3 and 3 more that I hadn't burned yet.It looked like a water spot inbetween the acrylic outer layer and the dye. Happen to be 6 in a row,ok after that. Here's actual media code according to dvdinfopro:
Media
Information
Disc Regions are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Media code/Manufacturer ID RICOHJPNR03
Media Product Revision Number 04h
Format Type UDF 1.02
Volume Name
Application id
Implementation id AHEAD Nero
Recording Date/Time (mm/dd/yyyy) 12/14/2005 18:18:13
Format Capacity 4.03GB(4.33GB)
Book Type DVD-ROM
Media Type DVD+R
Manufacturer Rated Speed 16.0x 22160KBp
Data area starting sector 30000h
Data area end sector 203C3Fh
Linear Density 0.267um/bit
Track Density 0.74um/track
Number of Layers 1
Complete Media Code
00000000 08 02 00 00 01 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 23 3C 3F .............#<?
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 52 49 43 4F 48 4A 50 4E 52 .......RICOHJPNR
00000020 30 33 04 38 23 54 37 13 00 44 73 00 84 6D 15 15 03.8#T7..Ds..m..
00000030 0B 0B 08 08 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................
Your memorex are most likely made by the same manufacturer,maybe even the same batch!
I am quite fond of the Office Depot +8x riteks.The 50 packs were on sale-buy 1/get 2 free. Only 1 spindle of +8x left so they let me substitute 2 spindles of +16x for my freebies. Pretty good for 20 cents each during that sale!That's why I stay clear of the taiwanese maxell +8x's.Those are made by ritek-r03 as well and run 30 cents apiece when on sale.I'd pay 30 cents each for hitachi maxells.
I've burned a slew of ricohjpn-r01 in the +4x speed.These include: Maxell/sony/verbatim/ and all were very good on my benqs and tv recorder. I even have some TDK +2.4x rws that were made by ricohjpn. All very decent media,for the price.
I haven't found any ricohjpn-02 media so I don't know how they are.They'd have to be pretty good.
With the exception of those 6 bad discs,these ricohjpn-r03 seem to be decent. I'd have to rate them just under the Ritek-r03.
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