memorex 8.5GB 2.4X to 8X Write Speed DVD+R DL 25 Packs Spindle Disc Model 05712 - OEM

Pros: Half as many discs required for backup, same media reliability as Memorex's DVD-R 4GB discs, decent price

Cons: Burning files at 8x speed probably isn't such a great idea. 4X or slower is a much more reliable burn, resulting in fewer coasters.

Other Thoughts: With my burner, I got a bunch of these from my Dad (4-5 packages). I ran out of them and NewEgg had the same brand/model so I got some more for the future. In the future it'd be much more cost/time effective to use a flash drive/SSD for backup than to continue to rely on optical media of any form.

Pros: Price.

I bought these on a newegg deal.

Cons: They don't work. It won't burn a movie using windows dvd maker. I have used other dvd-r discs and they work fine. I have tried with 4 of these discs and everytime I get an error.

Other Thoughts: Newegg now shows these as a discontinued item. I should have save my money.

Pros: Price

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: All disks worked

Pros: Great drive. Great for XGD3 burning

Cons: None

Pros: None

Cons: Throwing most of these away after bad burns. Tried in 5 different burners. One would not even recognize them. Other burners would fail during burn at the layer break, or fail verification at the layer break. 75% coasters.

Other Thoughts: Must be a bad lot. Had great luck with these before.

Pros: Works well in Imgburn. I use Liteon iHas burner with ixtreme burner max FW.

These discs burn great, but with different settings than my 2.4x Verbatims.

Not 2.4x discs, actually they are 4x/6x/8x discs, so they come out faster. (I run them on the slowest speed achievable, 4x)

Cons: Killed a disc that errored at 50% because I had it on the same settings I burn my Verbs with.

Technically not a con because it was my error, but still.

Other Thoughts: Use these exact settings in ImgBurn with these discs FIRST, then go from there to see what makes the best copies for you:

Write speed set to 4x (the slowest, these discs cannot go slower even when set to 2.4x they burn at 4x)

Force HyperTuning: Disable <--- (Different than Verbatims)
Online HT: Disable <--- (Different than Verbatims)
Overspeed: Disable
SmartBurn: Enable
Clear OPC: N/A

Also enable perform OPC before write in the options menu.

Calculate optimal layerbreak for burning 360 backup discs.

(Make sure you burn using the 1 kb DVD file after running abgx, not the large ISO file. It tells imgburn where the layerbreak should be. Don't use manual unless you want to change it manually every time you go from an XGD3 to XGD2 disc, as these have different layerbreaks)

Pros: None

Cons: Have gone thru 5 of them no success. My mistake was ordering these inferior dvds instead of sticking with what I have used before which are the Verbatim DVD DL, I had to finish authoring my project with the Verbatim.

Other Thoughts: What a waste of money, buying these cheap DVD turned out to be expensive, will never buy another Memorex product.

Pros: These work fine for XGD2 and XGD3 (with iXtreme Burner MAX firmware installed.) MUST have the RITEK version.

Cons: Last 2 packs have been version MBIPG101-R10-65 and have been giving me trouble burning with IMGBURN..

No way of knowing what your gonna get...

Pros: The discs can be written to for xgd2 backup games, but xgd3 games will almost never store correctly.

Cons: The disc itself does not store a full 8.5 gb, the last 200mb or so is sketchy and as such will not work the majority of the time when burning backups of anything higher than 8 gb.
I've used memorex before, and it was just this batch that i've tested that has been a total failure.
I try to store 8.5gb on the discs, but it always fails the last 200-10 mb on the discs.

Other Thoughts: I was hoping to get atleast an 80% success rate but I was only able to get 1 usable copy out of 25, not cool memorex. Marketing a disc that MAY be 8.5 max is shadey, it's more like 8-8.5 gb.

Looks like I will be headed to verbatim's next time, the extra price is more than worth the dollar extra per disc.

Pros: I have purchased several packages for myself and recently bought some for Christmas presents very happy with them I find that I don't get coasters as long as I keep burner speed below max speed if it says 12 then I run at 8 never had a problem as long as you have good software quality burner and not have computer doing too much at the time of burn. in the past year with about 250 burns of media between CD-R DVD+R DVD-R BD-R DVD DL I have had maybe 3 bad burns and I can always blame myselfwith these discs I have burned maybe 30 so far and not one bad burn

Cons: none except they lowered price right after I bought 6 packages of them