Comments on: Going Gold http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/119 Welcome to the throes of my thoughts Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: elong http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/119#comment-254 elong Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:33:12 +0000 http://www.alstongrove.com/?p=119#comment-254 I bought a 50-pack of 8x Verbatim UltraLife DVD-R at Amazon for $1.40 per disc: http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-UltraLife%C2%BF-Archival-Grade-DVD-R/dp/B000H3B6EO/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218507611&sr=8-1 A lot of people think that Taiyo Yuden (premium line silver thermal lacquer) is the best blank DVD media, which only cost about $0.30 - $0.60 per disc: http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-r-media.html They are supposed to last 100 years, but I can’t find any testing they’ve done to back that up. Also, they do not have the scratch-resistant coating like Verbatim UltraLife. I also looked at another gold disc called Delkin Devices Archival Gold DVD-R, but I’ve read a few people have had some compatibility problems with them. The Verbatim UltraLife also uses a silver layer to enhance the reflectively and make it more compatible. I bought a 50-pack of 8x Verbatim UltraLife DVD-R at Amazon for $1.40 per disc:

http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-UltraLife%C2%BF-Archival-Grade-DVD-R/dp/B000H3B6EO/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218507611&sr=8-1

A lot of people think that Taiyo Yuden (premium line silver thermal lacquer) is the best blank DVD media, which only cost about $0.30 - $0.60 per disc:

http://www.supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-r-media.html

They are supposed to last 100 years, but I can’t find any testing they’ve done to back that up. Also, they do not have the scratch-resistant coating like Verbatim UltraLife.

I also looked at another gold disc called Delkin Devices Archival Gold DVD-R, but I’ve read a few people have had some compatibility problems with them. The Verbatim UltraLife also uses a silver layer to enhance the reflectively and make it more compatible.

]]> By: Rob Stevenson http://www.alstongrove.com/posts/119#comment-251 Rob Stevenson Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:08:52 +0000 http://www.alstongrove.com/?p=119#comment-251 Hey Eric! What the price difference between a spindle of gold disks compared to a "good quality" spindle of regular disks? Hey Eric! What the price difference between a spindle of gold disks compared to a “good quality” spindle of regular disks?

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