hobbit112,

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I've been hearing some nice things about the Sony Optiarc 7200 and have been thinking about one for myself.

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I've been using Optiarc drives since the NECs were NECs and then switched to Optiarc. The only issue I ever had was with the AW series, and that was because they looked very cheap! I've sold a ton of them and only had one go bad, and that was mine after the PSU went south! LOL!! They are all I use for my customer builds unless the customer wants something specific. I like the price, quality and performance I get with them!

Best Regards,
Russ

well this isnt a scan of a burnt movie but its is a so called scan...lol dvd identifier on some office depot 16x dvd+r i got for free.. yup like the cd-r's i got a hundred of for free.


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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:RITEK-F16-001]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [DVD+R]
Manufacturer Name : [Ritek Corp.]
Manufacturer ID : [RITEK]
Media Type ID : [F16]
Product Revision : [001]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,295,104 Sectors = 4.70 GB (4.38 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [1x-2.4x , 4x , 6x-8x , 6x-16x]
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[ DVD Identifier V5.0.1 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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heres how ya get them. goto www.officedeopt.com/emailsignup
basicly registar your email addy and they give you a coupon for 10 free 16x dvd+r's... pretty nice huh

Originally posted by cincyrob:

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heres how ya get them. goto www.officedeopt.com/signup
basicly registar your email addy and they give you a coupon for 10 free 16x dvd+r's... pretty nice huh

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So, you like registered 10 addys?

Link didn't work for me Rob, Must be a Cinncy thing, filtering out them darn World Chamion Red Sox fans like me eh? How's the race going for first round draft picks going?

i didnt get a coupon i took the email they sent me and told them i didnt get a coupon in the email they still gave them to me for free..

if you get the coupon just copy it and take it back as many times as ya want. thats what i did with the cd-r's i got about 160 of them..lol

anyone get that coupon id like to have a copy of one..lol

opps sorry. that should have been

www.officedepot.com/emailsignup

i'll correct original post

ok got a nice little scan here. its a conversion so i think its pretty good. plus it on one of the ritek officedepot disc.

cincyrob,

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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:RITEK-F16-001]

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Just be warned, the F16s are terrible! My last 100 Ridatas had about 20 of them mixed in with the good ones and they stink! 6 coasters out of the 20. The R03-004s I had before were much better. Ridata, which is very close to where I live, replaced them for me. That's why I switched to the Verbs! I don't get coasters, ever! The only ones I've ever gotten were when I burned when it advised me not to, although I did get that same error message when I made a back up of "The Golden Compass", and that turned out OK. I had to also change the name of the directory for the rip as it wouldn't create the folder because the title has syntax errors so it can't create the folder as the title name. Just create your own named folder (any name) and manually tell the program where to store the rip and it works fine!

Russ

Russ
i wouldnt buy theses but they are free. cant pass up free..lol i just got another 10pack.lol i'll check these out and see what they code out as when i get home. i know the one i scaned up above there got a nice scan score wise even PIF's are very low, but the PIE's are pretty high for my likeing...hey they can be my give away disc..lol they get to watch what ever is on it once they come out ahead of the game.. free is free....lol

I've never had a problem with those Riteks, even though I normally use the Verb or Sony disks. Thanks for the link Rob.

Originally posted by cincyrob:

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i didnt get a coupon i took the email they sent me and told them i didnt get a coupon in the email they still gave them to me for free..

if you get the coupon just copy it and take it back as many times as ya want. thats what i did with the cd-r's i got about 160 of them..lol

anyone get that coupon id like to have a copy of one..lol

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Well I got screwed!! Didn't get an email, didn't get a coupon, didn't get anything but open air internet! NOW I'll get emails spamming my account, mail to my address, and stuff I don't want. :P

J/K ... Guess their email is running slow or something went awry!!

Just did a scan with KProbe and all seems well. I want to do a Jitter test but don't remember where it is with KProbe if there is one. Sorry a little slow today. ;)

OH crap.. forgot about this post.... lol. Been writing it for about 2 hours now.. lol.

....gm

blivetNC,

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I've never had a problem with those Riteks, even though I normally use the Verb or Sony disks. Thanks for the link Rob.

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I never had a problem with the Riteks until the F-16s! The 002s and 003s were excellent through all their revisions. They worked very well and the only coasters I ever made (3) were my own fault, not the media! That's why I made the switch to the Verbs when I started getting failures with the F-16s! No problems with the Verbs at all!

BTW! I just though of this. Is your 160 powered by the USB line? That could be the whole problem. Not enough power for the length of the usb cable! If I use a usb optical drive I have a powered usb hub I installed. Helps solve that kind of problem! Can't hurt to ask! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

who me Russ?
talking about my HDD? no its IDE. but i do need a longer ide cable to reach good to that PCI-e card i have my 2 ODD running with now

cincyrob,

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who me Russ?

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I was in a hurry and had a customer here so I copied it off of blivet's post by mistake! LOL!!

Russ

Finally got me email... lol. No coupon tho, just the coupon code....

Here's the scan of the Ritek S04..
burned w/ Lite-On LH-20A1P
IMGBURN @ 2.4x
Scanned w/ LH-20A1P @ 4x

w/ KProbe...

goodfellas RITEK S04

w/Nero DiscSpeed 4.11.2.0

goodfellas RITEK S04

NOT bad results at all... pleased actually... Gonna check the disc I burned at 4x and see what that looks like.. ;)

....gm

add: posted this over in the DVD+R DL thread too... ;)

scan burned at 18x speed

no offense zoso but could you move those silly graphs you have there so we can thereal scan....lol

GM that last link ya linked us to doesnt show anything other than another forum thingy..lol. Not a bad scan on that DL there.


im gonna do a identifier on this second 10 pack of office depot disc and then a burn on one and see what i get.
the second pack of 10 is also the F16 code

here is a link to the officedepot coupon. it actually has the coupon there. but it is kinda blurry. so if you have the email with the coupon code take it with you like i did..lol
http://www.freestufftimes.com/23/free-of...10-pack-coupon/

got a little old school here with a old version of dvdinfo pro..lol


http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/fools1.png
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/fools2.png

not bad i think look at them PIE's oh there hardly is any to look at..lol

Here we go with nero...man if these are crappy disc, by the scans they are pretty awsome. below 7000PIE's in nero thats real nice. gonna pop it in and check it out some see how it plays.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/foolsnero.png

cincyrob,

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Here we go with nero...man if these are crappy disc, by the scans they are pretty awsome. below 7000PIE's in nero thats real nice. gonna pop it in and check it out some see how it plays.

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All the ones I got were from the first production batch according to the numbers. That's why they replaced them! If they've solved whatever problem that was plaguing them, that's good! 6 out of the 20 I had were bad, and I'm not exactly new at this! LOL!! It wasn't a hardware issue as I've had no problems at all with the Verbs!

Make that 8 out of 22! I just found 2 F-16s at the very bottom of the stack! Both failed to burn right in different machines! No scratches or anything obvious that I could see.

Russ

down to my last 5 8x+r TY's
thought id use one on this flick here. good stuff..lmao

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/DQT.png
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/Witless.png

i actually burnt this on my HP system with the SHW-160P6S litey.
still a pretty sweet burner i haveto say...lol

NIce one RedRob!!! :) Those YUDEN T02's are awesome, are they not?? ;)

I know a guy that has a stash of those somewhere. :) You might be able to talk garmoon out of some if you're nice enough.... :P

....gm

yea them TY's are so lovely. hard to say anything bad about them...lol

i'll have a scan here in the next few Hours.
havent had much time today to do any burning. been a great day in sports for sure. Reds win with ease.Jeff gordon not in the hunt for a win..lol
lakers vs celtics in the finals.(go Celtics)Larry bird forever Majic Johnson never !!! dont get any better than that..lol

ok back on topic. scans soon to be here..

I haven't done a scan in over a year or soooooooo and here is one that I did today:



after thousands of burns for my Taiyo Yudens and my BenQ 1655 I still get a 98 score! nice huh? not bad.

And JUST YESTERDAY I found my first bad YUDEN000 T02! So it does happen! I finally got a coaster of a TY!!!! This is a first! After THOUSANDS OF BURNS I got a coaster from a TY. I forgive you TY! hahahaha

Holy Cow who just dropped in??? hehehee...

Nice to see you drop by you braggart you!!!! Pretty good scan even tho it's a TY T02..... hehehee. j/k buddy, that's great.... STILL pumping out those kinda scans after 1000's of burns.. that is ONE good dvdrw you got.. May you continue to get those results.... :D

...gm

I don't see why I can't keep going the way it is! I love my BenQ. It's too bad they discontinued making these babies!

One of the free DVD disks from Afterdawn.
I have always had good luck with the Ritek disks.