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I'll add in the TDK's. Along with HP/memosux/phillips/and most store brand name media to avoid like the plague,with the exception of Office Depot 8x media.
Stick with the Japanese media like taiyo yuden/fuji/sony/and maxell. Verbatim data life plus is also very good,but comes from singapore and taiwan.
The taiwanese fuji are advised to stay away from.
Office depot has quality ritek media in their 8x speeds,and are very good.
Mik: What format do you use?
Explain the Lockup.
What media are you using? Brand name/speed rate/and format.
Quality media can do many improvements for playback.Stand alone players can magnify the defects of the lower quality manufacturers.It makes them harder to play,thus giving poor playback or no disc inserted errors..
The different formats can also do a number on stand alones.
Edit: Back to original question: No,not the cheaper media,but the low quality media can cause many more read errors on your backups. I don't look at the cost of media as cheap prices must be crappy media. I look at all the major store sales each week.Staples and Office depot are my main purchasing sites. I believe staples have memosux this week and last week had HP on sale for around $18 for spindles of 50. That's around 35 cents apiece for the likely cmags.If you get in on their sony and fuji sales,you can get the taiyo yudens for that same price and even cheaper. Last sale had fuji tys for 30 cents each! Ritek Office depot goes for 25-30 cents each/while the maxell riteks go for around 35 cents apiece.That's 10 cents different just for the name brand!
The quality is about the MID codes on the media.You may save on the short term of some of those cheapie priced low quality manufacturers,but you'll pay for it in the long run.
Local stores have no clue of what they have.It's like buying a hyundai accent or a honda civic for about the same price. Look those labels over good for the japanese brands. Usually taiyo yuden and hitachi on most of them.
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