Customer Reviews

Ridata DVD+R 4x 50-pack Spindle

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I just received a 50 pack of the 4x Ridata +R media and checked the description in DVDINFOPRO. As "Crappiest Media Made" noted, these are not the RICOHJPN but instead RITEK-R03. I have had 2 coasters out of the first 25 disks. Not acceptable considering I had a 100% success rate with the 'older' RICOHJPN. I have to assume that in fact these are reject 8x media. Who can you trust anymore?

I've have bought 600 DVD+R media in amazon.com website, the first media I started burning was Memorex, but when amazon.com decided to sell Ridata, I bought 1 Spindle of 50 discs, all of them have work great so far, so I inmmediately decided to buy only Ridata because of the Recognizable Brand, Quality and Reliability of Ritek Company, I am using 1 Memorex Dual +-RW 4X and a HP DVD Writer + at 4X too, Ritek is obviously much better (the best to be more precise) than HP, Memorex, Ricoh, etc

Dunno about the RiData's sold here on Amazon, but a certain major online retailer with name beginning with "N" and last letters "gg" sells this exact same media (RiData "always right" DVD+R 4x 50-pack), and the last two 50-packs I've gotten were both RICOHJPNR01 media. My advice would be to go with this other well-known retailer, as apparently your chances of getting the grade-A media are much better. Anyway, I give this media 5 stars, but be warned that with branded media like RiData (or Memorex, or Sony, etc) it will always vary as to who makes the discs -- this is a perfectly normal practice and there's no grounds to complain since this has been going on a long time with both CD and DVD recordable media. If you want guaranteed quality, I'd go with an OEM name like Taiyo Yuden.

The first DVD out of the container turned out a coaster. I was worried from that point on. The next 4 burned without a problem. Will need to see it the first one was just a fluke. Can't beat the price though.

Well, I just wanted to copy few movies and I was able to do it. It does what it is suppose to do and I am satisfied. I bought it because I thought the price was right.

I follow Mr. Yang's suggestions and updated the firmware. So far I burned about 10 all at 4X. I am upgrading the rating. If you have not tried upgrading the firmware, try it you may be surprised. Very satisfied.

Live and learn.

I have a NEC 2510A DVD Writer. I have not had one coaster after 20 disks. I am also getting write speeds of 6X. Even when I am running multiple applications I have not had a bad burn. Definitely recommend for NEC 2510A users.

Stay away from these if you have a slot loading dvddrive like on an iMac. They have very unsmooth edges, and get stuck in the slot loading drives. I currently have one stuck in there, and it has pretty much disabled my iMac because all it tries to do is eject the disk whenever its turned on.

I bought the 50 pack definitely for the price and the specs seemed to be ok. I got them and had them on reserve for when my current supply of a different brand runs out. Finally I went to use a disk out of the 50 pack in this years model of the Panaonic Home DVD Recorder. Not one single disk out of the top five was detected by the recorder. Now I am stuck with useless disks since my return date is passed with Amazon and I can't get a refund. Now I am glad I paid so little for them.

Great discs. I always set Nero to check for errors after burning, and do post-burn CRC checks. I've burnt about 25 so far most at 4x and had zero errors.

I read some reviews where people somehow try to justify faulty media but I just don't understand it. If the pack says 50 discs I expect to make 50 copies. Well, maybe one or two coasters, but not 10, or 15! I would rather pay a few $$ extra as long as I know that I'm getting reliable discs. Otherwise what's the point of even bothering to make DVDs if you don't care about the data that's written on them right? I bought Velocity DVD-Rs before and had to return them because they were completely unusable junk. Paid a few more bux for these 4x Ridata and so far happy I did!