Falceron
21-12-2000, 20:41
Just a question... I have heard conflicting reports about the reliability of no-name brand 74 min discs. I've heard on boards that they are junk and should be avoided, but a friend uses them with no troubles. Possibly they will deteriorate in a short period of time? Anyway, I'm guessing this is much more of an issue with 80 minute discs. Personally I am seeing less of a reason to buy the 74 mins so my next spindle I buy will probably be 80 mins. Doing some price research I saw that noname spindles of like 100 80 min discs can be as low as $20! So something must be up with this.. The lowest brand media I could find was Leda 80 mins a pack of 100 for $20.90.. Who knows about shipping though.. Anyway that's a very good price! My question that i'm getting to is should I worry about the brand on the 80 min discs (currently I have some Imation.. no trouble but they haven't been around for long so I don't know if they will break down)? Is Leda a decent brand? The data on the particular Leda disc that I was looking at is:
Substrate Polycarbonate Writing Layer Cyanine Dye Reflective Layer Au (Gold) or Ag (Silver) Protection Layer Acry Laq
And finally (slightly different topic..), when I was looking at types of CD media on the net, I noticed that many of them are called "silvers". Are these lower or higher quality discs?
Substrate Polycarbonate Writing Layer Cyanine Dye Reflective Layer Au (Gold) or Ag (Silver) Protection Layer Acry Laq
And finally (slightly different topic..), when I was looking at types of CD media on the net, I noticed that many of them are called "silvers". Are these lower or higher quality discs?