RiDATA 4.7 GB 16X DVD+R 100 Packs Cake Box Model DRD+4716-RDCB1009

Pros: RiDATA... what else needs to be said. Premium quality that is accepted and compatible with 99%+ of the DVD burner manufacturers on the market. Label/logo not too intrusive.

Cons: Electric Blue face color, but is nice on the eye.

Overall Review: 4.7 @ full on speed = 100% success burns for me. I use CDBurnerXP (freeweware) and UltraISO with a Sony Optiarc with no coasters.

Pros: The 100-disc cake box is okay, and I needed another one to store discs in.

They're consistent.

They give very good burns if you keep the speed down. (Average PIF 0.01, peak 2 on a full disc @ 8x burn)

If you're not putting more than 3GB on a disc, they'll work fine at 16x.

Cons: It's hard to manufacture a bad single-layer disc, but RiTek managed to. Even no-name Chinese single-layer discs are usually usable.

Discs are not capable of 16x. They work great at 8x, and start getting dodgy at 12x. Anything after about 3-3.5GB is barely readable, if at all. You know the discs are lousy when a Pioneer refuses to burn them full speed!

These discs have been tried in the following burners, and give nearly identical results across all drives: Lite-On iHAS124W, (3x) Lite-On iHAS424B, (3x) ASUS DRW-24B3LT, LG WH14NS40 (old version), and Pioneer BDR-209DBK.

Overall Review: If you're not putting more than 3GB on a disc, these discs will work fine at 16x. This is because when burning the inner part of the disc, the actual speed of the data track past the laser hasn't reached critical speed yet.

MID is RiTek F16.

Purchase date: March 29, 2017