We now have this drive in our production department. Our company produces Technical Training Videos and many of these are now being converted to DVD. We have adopted the -R format and would like to use this drive to make quick duplicates of some of our material... but, we are having difficulty finding the right DVD Media. We've tried Sony x2 -R (just because it was handy to try), but we would like to utilize the drives x4 -R writing speeds. If anyone can make some recommendations for us, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
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I've thrown cheap, cheap unbranded 4x DVD-R's at it and it runs them no problem. However, that's just for DVD-Video and not PS2 backups (which is what I'm assuming you're backing up anyways).
I'm currently using Princo's and they work flawlessly at 4x burning for both DVD Video and PS2 without any problems.
However, since it's your company and price probably isn't an object, forgot Riteks. Go with the professional stuff.
Thanks everyone. I'll bring some of those in and let you know if our problem is solved. I am also looking at replacing the reader with a Pioneer reader, the current one is a Sony. I've put the existing burner on the Primary IDE and the Sony on the Sec IDE to see if that would help. The HD's are SATA so no worries there. But still getting bad burn times - 50 minutes or more on a 2.5Gig DVD that we produced from a MAC G5 which has no problems being read from any of our DVD players... I'll keep you posted.
I would avoid the Princo's, very inconsistant and there is a question of long term playability.
Meritline also sells 4X Sample packs, that enable you to try before you commit to large quantities. I've had good luck and reads/burns with Ritek, BeALL and Taiyo Yuden discs.
Well, thanks all... turns out - on this "new" system, the Sony DVD reader was causing all the problems. Replaced it with a Pioneer DVD reader and I'm now getting reliable and FAST burns!!! Not sure if it was a defective reader or an incompatibility between the two. All is well that ends well!
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