From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 20:51:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35B27898 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f170.google.com (mail-we0-f170.google.com [74.125.82.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C00DB2904 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id u57so1838631wes.29 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:51:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wl5a9dCV+T7ivA4fq5JKnyGo1reCtVUpv8tmj6Bm+HE=; b=AVaRuOZfReJjsuxOOTfPSeiwaykynN1FG3I1WpswPbOE3dHEkyA17+zBaefNlQrdcC 2IAB8xGuNhnwtcsd5/JOIk7hmDmqxNEb/Brm0DSmf5prjYDfLOuglmn+YY6KgIje3S0+ Itku5kNimF6M58133Mbz3hwjqexKULCaKyQZxRfWoqAjZXirzawZiOQLuwsItrQXYfDC iksJUlO1WmKDP6q4eYsSiscKEMDf/LGO9bHGtPgth2UHztM04SVWvHTgYbipFMS5og3z 6s2Rq3rfa8z5PEEu1CqZGU1nvVgePDvL02MMd92i1jOsRFph60UA/B2iRZMDyv8n1CrQ IXcg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnDTyXVMJg8H/h4chQGlf3llUcoCLEHclj75HvpXvoPAWTrrCRdYOuCApvlAZYg6vbIrWMc X-Received: by 10.14.1.130 with SMTP id 2mr295981eed.104.1402001461200; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phenom.cordula.ws (p5DDDA713.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [93.221.167.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y5sm17264753eee.1.2014.06.05.13.50.59 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5390D82E.3030504@cordula.ws> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:50:54 +0200 From: cpghost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optical Media Woes References: <221.1399708393@server1.tristatelogic.com> <7779.1399931855@server1.tristatelogic.com> <20140526233616.GA81041@neutralgood.org> In-Reply-To: <20140526233616.GA81041@neutralgood.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:51:09 -0000 On 05/27/14 01:36, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 02:57:35PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> I went back and burned a fresh new CD... also a good quality Verbatim, >> like the one I was getting errors from... this time performing the burn > >> The moral of the story is obvious: Even if one has the best quality >> media and up-to-date burners, one should never have blind faith in any > > I'm pretty sure Verbatim is just a brand name. It doesn't tell you anything > about the quality of the disks. Verbatim gets disks from whichever OEM > they get the best price from. > > If you really care about the quality of the blank disks then you need to > buy disks from the original maker of the disks. Last I heard the best disks > were the ones that are made in Japan. I myself usually buy Taiyo Yuden > blanks. Basically, it's a matter of the fab that creates the disks. In my experience (and I used a LOT of Verbatim disks and still do), Verbatim disks made in Taiwan are excellent, those made in India are junk. YMMV. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/