50 pack dvd-r, harvey norman have it for $9.95
Domyane page 9 catalouge have it for $9
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Harvey Norman - 50 Pack DVD-R $9.95, Domayne $9 MPM Brand
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bargrin on 07/03/2010 - 01:47 harveynorman.dynamiccatalogue.com.au (596 clicks)
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I don't know if the Target sale is over, but if it isn't there were still some $8.50 spindles at Chatswood as late as last weekend.
BTW what is the media code on the HN DVDs?
People still use optical media…?
4.7gb @ 0.18c/disc…then yeah!
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I'm beginning to wonder myself !! I used to backup my family pictures on dvd's but got sick of it a couple of years ago. External hard drives is the way to go ..
I still voted positive because it is a good deal.
Never trust a harddisk drive, since it is still mechanical, if it fails you lose everything. Unless you are ready to use 2 drives to mirror each other. The chance of failing both is minimal!
The same could be said about optical media.
Particularly cheap shit like these.
How many backup hard drives do you maintain? I know too many people who only have one backup hard drive with hundreds of gigs of irreplaceable family photos on it. Better hope you don't get a virus or power surge during a backup - both your original and your backups will be toast!
At least backing up incrementally over a hundred DVDs doesn't leave all your eggs in one basket. If one or two fail that's sad but the other 98 are still OK, but if everything is on one hard drive and it fails (which they do REGULARLY - I'm in the data recovery business and see it every day) you're well and truly screwed. Also a DVD can't be erased if you get a virus, but a backup hard drive can be erased in a flash if you're unlucky. You won't even know until everything's gone.
That being said, I wouldn't use cheap DVDs like this to backup anything important. In my experience very cheap no-name DVDs degrade quickly. I have a few 3 year old cheapie brand DVDs that are unreadable and actually have pinprick holes in them where light shines through. They were stored in the same box as decent brand DVDs which still read just fine. Scary, but you've been warned. Best to have at least two DVD backups of important files, preferably on two different brands of DVD in case there was a manufacturing error, one backup set stored offsite in case of fire or flood, and a hard drive copy.
You still need DVDs to hold movies that you're recorded off the air or transcoded from your camcorder and want to pass on to relis.
And I think my archival DVDs (not this cheapo brand obviously) will last longer than your hard disk interface standards.
drop both into a shreading machine…. now which one will last longer :P
Obviously if I drop you into a shredding machine, it's all irrelevant. :P
i thought this was the standard price for the pos discs HV sell, everytime i walk into one of their stores i see em going for 9.95
this first time i seen 50 pack go for less than $15 which wasnt a clearance line.
Nah, regular DVD stock gets sold cheap now and then perhaps as inducement to visit. 9289 had $10 spindles of LG a while back.
Which is better this one from HN or the $8 one from Target. Quality-wise not price
The $8.50 Target DVDs are from MCC, see the media codes in that thread.
I don't know what the HN media codes are.
I wouldn't trust these media with anything I want to last more than a year. Also I wouldn't be too aggressive with the burn speed despite the rating, you'll get more coasters at high speeds.
Don't believe what they say about cheap discs.
MPM DVD-R has CMC-MAG AM3 code which is the same as TDK DVD-Rs.
So if you are paying almost double for TDK, then you should change.
Also Kodak discs I've bought have the same code, so if it's good enough for kodak and the discs you get at the photo shops, then it's good enough for me.Otherwise stick with Taiyo Yuden DVD-Rs. This is especially for sensitive data.
In the end, it's might be better to store your data in many areas, rather than rely on Taiyo Yuden. For the super paranoid. (TYG)
The MCC discs MCC02RG20, Verbatim are ok, but I haven't used many, so I cannot comment on the quality of these discs.
BTW, the advertised item is a "refill pack", if you would like the spindle with it, then it costs around $3 more.
If all, Ritek = Garbage.
Same code maybe, but it's so easy to knock-off the codes they are meaningless these days. Any blank DVD factory in China can replicate a Japanese code. I have boxes of cheap DVDs my clients brought in that are unreadable. Some of them have the same DVD media code as well-known reliable TDK or Sony DVDs, but the glues they use are dodgy and eat through the data layer over time.
I cannot argue with the concept that these codes may be fake.
However, I've only heard of people running into these situations when buying from a phony ebay operator looking to pass off Taiyo Yuden. It is very unlikely they will wish to pass off a medium quality disc.Nevertheless, you can email CMC Mag http://cmcdisc.com/contactus.htm to check if they truly originate from their factories.
If in doubt, use a disc quality scan.
That could also mean that TDK/Sony/Kodak/etc also resell cheap disks. Perhaps you might get better quality control with a known brand. Perhaps not. Might also depend on which factory you get: luck.
In any case I don't write archival data, e.g. family photos on these brands. And if there is anything super important, you should make a second and third copy and take them offsite, e.g. give relative a copy, give a friend an encrypted copy. And hope that you don't forget the passphrase. :)
And when Blu-Ray becomes cheap enough, I will copy the DVDs to that and keep the DVDs for a while. Same as what I am doing with CDs now, copying to DVDs.
Not a bad deal for those who missed out on the $8 for a 50 pack at Target recently.