Post your DISC quality scans here 2

Thanks GM. This is only the second drive I ever had a disk blow in. I had a nurse I knew stick a disk she knew was cracked in one of mine and it blew. I've replaced a lot of drives for others that were roached by a dick blowing, but this is the first one I've ever seen with physical damage on the outside like this one has.



That's solid plastic behind the cover lip, and the plastic isn't broken, the arc in the metal is 1 3/4" wide and the gap you see is just over 1/8". I can't even begin to imagine a broken piece of disk being heavy enough to do that, but there it is! It sounded like the crack of a rifle!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Russ, i got a AD7220S that has about 30 burns on it i could send ya if ya want? when i got my IHAS324's i had to make room and the AD7220S had to come out..lol

THese Ritek F-16 do burn good. in all 4 of my drives(2 Ihas324 a 7240 and a 7260) they dont scan that well but i havent had any issue with playback on anything i play them in.

i found in a biglots here close to me a stash of 8x-r sonys (yep TY's) they were 25 pack cake boxes. $8 each. i bought 5 of them...lol wish i could have gotten the entire case of 50 of them. i went back about 4 days later and they was all gone..

 

Rob,

Thanks Rob for the offer, but I already replaced it with an Optiarc AD-7261S. I'm also getting two new drives from Asus to replace both 24B1ST drives. They sent me an RMA for them yesterday.

Thanks Again,
Russ

 

Rob, you should have take out a loan and sprung for the case of Sonys.I know the +Rs were good these were-Rs? LOL

 

yea 8x-r sony's coding out as TYG02's
funny thing is ive had these 5 25pc cake boxes of them and have yet to burn one.. havent come across anything worth their while to burn to them.
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD-R:TYG02]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD-R] - [DVD-R]
Manufacturer Name : [Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd.]
Manufacturer ID : [TYG02]
Blank Disc Capacity : [2,298,496 Sectors = 4.71 GB (4.38 GiB)]
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[ DVD Identifier V5.2.0 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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@Russ
no problem thought id offer, like i said i just got it setting on my desk shelf right now. im hoping around my b-day(august 21) i can start a new build and ill use it in there. maybe as a main drive then get a blu ray player to rip and then encode blu-ray with a nice new I7 2600K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070

 

I don't feel so bad now I use the 8X +R Sonys-have about 75 left. You're right not much worthy of a TY Sony now adays. I did enjoy "Lincoln Lawyer" last night-not so silly actually serious.

 

haven't done a scan in months ..I will post one soon..man the price of Taiyo Yuden blank media has shot up! NO great deals as of last..I would say oil prices are to blame..BTW what brand BR OODs writers are people having the best luck with..I'm getting one soon.

 

Ah yes. Gas/oil prices affect everything I wish the BD prices would drop a bit more. The BD-50 discs are ridiculous!

 

not bad for a 3+ year old ODD

 

Not bad at all Scott. but ya should have burnt it on that awesome 20A1S. personally i still say that is the best drive lite-on ever made. just my 2c.
here is a burn on one of them sony 8x-r's burnt at 8x. movie only.


Nero CD-DVD Speed: Disc Info
Basic Information
Disc type: : DVD-R
Book Type : DVD-R
Manufacturer: : unknown
MID : TYG02
Write speeds: : 4 X - 6 X - 8 X - 12 X - 16 X - 18 X - 20 X
Blank Capacity : 4.38 GB
: 4489 MB
: 4707319808 bytes
Extended Information
Layers : 1
Usage : General
Copyright protection : n/a
Recorder information : recorded with ATAPI iHAS324 A
Disc Status : Closed
Raw Data
Pre-recorded Information in Lead-in (0Eh)
0000 - 01 40 C1 FD 9E D8 52 00 02 87 0D 10 66 78 80 00 - .@....R.....fx..
0010 - 03 54 59 47 30 32 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - .TYG02..........
0020 - 05 AA A2 22 22 20 02 00 7A 05 28 00 03 00 00 00 - ...""...z.(.....
0030 - 00 00 00 00 0A 00 1D 00 58 BA 11 00 94 00 11 00 - ........X.......
0040 - A1 28 4D 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 1D 00 - .(M.............
0050 - 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F4 00 11 00 57 49 4D 00 - ............WIM.
0060 - 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 90 01 11 00 - ................

yea i might just try one @ that 20x speed it says it can handle..lol

 

Yah, the LH20A1S/H's are good drives. I preferred them for ripping though. Sometimes I still use the Sata one for ripping. But mostly just scanning. My optiarcs (NEC chipped) seem to do a little better at burning. But I wouldn't hesitate to burn with it

 

Zo... I think the LG BD drives seem to be getting the best reviews... I don't have one and prolly wont for a while... the media is just to expensive and it seems the longevity of the burns are questionable at present.. Good luck!!

 

The TY's scan very nice. As one would expect I have no doubt that they'll last at least a couple decades. And by that point, Petabyte drives should be available to the consumer Even a petabyte drive could contain a great deal of BD discs. 40,000 if my math is correct.

If they're stored well, they should be fine. I have heard of some discs going tits up within 12 months though. Probably the optical quantum/philips discs! As well as ritek!

 

Oman7,

Let me get this right. You would risk losing up to 40,000 flics by putting them all on a single HDD? LOL!! No Thank You! I'll stick with my trusty WD Black ALLS 500GB single platter drives for now. They are Cool running, Quiet, Vibration free, fast and have far fewer moving parts than larger Multi platter drives. Plus it has a 5 year warranty! I use a Docking Station to play them. I can plug it into the USB port to play it on an HDTV. I number my drives from 1 up and have a Master list for my Flics, and a program that works it. It tells me Album 2, and I plug in the number 2 drive. Wait a few seconds for the drive to mount, and click OK! The Movie starts!

I couldn't handle that kind of loss if an even half full Peta-byte drive went belly up. The time it would take to restore or clone a replacement would be incredible! I'll pass! :0)

Best Regards,
Russ

 

greensman,thanks for the update...in todays market i don't see BR media coming down n price anytime soon

 

If a petabyte drive is released to consumer market, it will mean that the rigorous testing they do will have been at least partially successful. And no. I would not trust all my data on a single drive. I'd have to have redundancies. I realize I do not at this time. It's a huge risk. But funds are a problem at the moment. I'm probably gonna ebay one of my 2tb drives, and purchase another 3tb soon. Once upon a time, there were 1.19Gb drives. I never fathomed 3tb drives. It was done. Petabyte drives are not so farfetched. It's only a matter of time They'll probably start calling them .1Pb, .25Pb, .5Pb, etc. A .1Pb drive is not far away at all. Guaranteed!

 

I guess I'm going to have to spring for a 3 TB external 3.0 USB just to see how fast my pc can handle it.

 

Speaking of externals.. I picked up a 1TB WD Elements drive the other day at Target for $36... Thought that was a pretty good deal... haven't even plugged it in yet.

 

WOW Gm! That's a pretty good deal. I must admit, I've never seen a deal quite as good as that one Lately I'm more interested in large drives though. Yah, I know they're expensive at the moment

 

garmoon,

As far as I'm concerned, the ones that have both eSata and USB are the best. eSata is much faster, yet you can still hook up to someone's computer and copy or load things via the externals USB if they don't have eSata. Best of both worlds!

Best Regards,
Russ