Which disks are most prominent

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

I have just flashed a benq and a hitachi with ixtreme 151, i dont know If this is the best one to use but i cant find 161 for the hitachi anyway. I will be investing in a probe kit And ck3 soon to flash my liteon.
What are the best discs to use? Preferably the cheaper ones.
Thanks.

[chroma]

Verbatim! Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL 8.5GB Wide Printable Surface - 25 Pack Spindle - Ebuyer
Verbs are bombproof, ive burned hundreds and never had a coaster.
second in line are cheap BulkPaq Bulkpaq 2.4x DVD+R DL Inkjet Printable - 25 Pack Spindle - Ebuyer, if your burner likes em then theyre golden, ive had very few coasters and they always read on units without an issue, they also retail for just over a tenner for 25, avoid the orange ones though, ive had issues with those in the past.

Its just down to a combination of experimenting, figuring out the happy medium between price, what your unit can read accurately and what your burner can actualy write to without failure.

Once you find disks that are cheap and work for you then stick to em, ive tried several different ones recently with dire results (the ammount of coasters ive had from cheap disks more than offsets writing purely to verbs if im being honest)

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

Thanks, will take a look after school.

[C64]

AONES, dirt cheap and have worked great in every machine I've tried.

[Time2Play]

iv always used aone and never had a coaster mate

[chroma]

Any aones ive used have never really retained their data.

They burned fine at 2.4x, loaded fine on the xbox for the first few days and then it all went pete tong and started to havve loading issues.

I assumed at first scratches, surfaces where perfect though, then i concluded it must be ambient storage temperatures, where the disk has been too hot or too cold and the dye has leeched, ive tried storing them all different places in all different conditions and every time i have the same problems, a week or two in and the problems always crop up.

Pitty cause the aone disks are really cheap and i could save a fortune using em.

Verbs i can spin off at 8x without an issue, bulks seem to top out at 4x before issues start to crop up, ive never tested aones cause like i said i initialy noticed problems with retention after 2.4x burns so didnt push them.
I mention this only because speed rapidly becomes an issue, 30 mins a disk is a nightmare (ive even tried on an old SCSI drive at 1x which took eons to complete)

Imations just gave me coasters, layer 0 would burn without issua and on the rare occasion a burn got through layer 1 i would get issues confirming in abgx when comapring split vids, they might work in the xbox drive but unless i confirm a disk i dont slap it in.

Maxwells and Memorex seem to be fairly high quality but the price is on par with verbs so unless im desperate (ie just give me what you have) for disks i dont usualy bother.

It would be nice if a company offered a spindle with a variety of disks from several manufacturers as a starter pack, to figure out which ones work best on your drives and give you a chance to figuge what suits without spending over the odds.

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

Il buy 1x verbatIm And 1x aones from ebay And burn 2games this well let me see which is the best for our drives.
Im going to sell a few games And get a ck3 And probe soon If the burned games work Okay.

[C64]

Any aones ive used have never really retained their data.

They burned fine at 2.4x, loaded fine on the xbox for the first few days and then it all went pete tong and started to havve loading issues.

I've been using Aones since they first appeared on the market, I've never had a single coaster and I've been using them on various 360's with various drives.

I use a Pioneer 115 and I always burn at 8x, no problems what-so-ever, no data loss, absolutely 100% success.

Even the so-called 'bad' Aone PLUS discs have been 100% for me.

Looking at your post, you seem to have terrible issues with a lot of discs, something isn't quite right there mate, all those disc you mention burn perfectly well on my machine.

My advice to the OP, is to try the cheapest discs you can find, if they work then great, if not then you could try an alternative disc within the same price range, if you don't find any budget discs that work then you could start spending a little more on the discs, I'd certainly never advise anyone to immediately shell out for the vastly over priced Verbatims before trying cheaper discs first.

You could even try replacing the burner you are using, the price of a pack of Verbatims is more then the price of a Pioneer DVD writer!

[chroma]

your telling me witchy!

Ive got a shoebox full of burners and several more already in machines from widely different manufacturers running all kinds of different firmware.

You would think i could burn anything without an issue, in reality though its really hit and miss, ive tried all kinds of combinations of disks, speeds and drives and always get mixed results.

[cunny]

I mainly use aones also, use odd verb. Thing is i mainly do is copy the disc to the hard drive of the xbox, this helps save the laser, the aone discs seem to help burn the laser out faster.

Recontly swapped few drives and when i asked what discs they were mainly using all said aone or the cheap media.

Also agree that if your getting allot of coasters, its time to replace the burner. Pioneer burner under ?20, 25 aone discs ?12, price of an original game. Jobs a good 1.

Chroma. Try burning games at x4. Have you tried differant aones? Could be a bad batch you have got. I used to stick to Pioneer burners. Got a hitachi and samsung now in this 1. In other tower, Pioneer and Samsung, both giving me coasters so replacing them this week as they are old IDE drives.

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

Spent 20quid on a sammy drive for the pc so we can backup games ourself And burn them. Yet to try iT but need to order connectivity kit first for my liteon dg 16D2S

[auomwehttam]

I've used memorex so far and everything's been doing fine. They're literally dirt cheap. I recommend them