ValueDisc BD-R 6X 25GB WHITE INKJET PRINTABLE 50PK in Spindle

Tested with LG BH10LS30/BH12LS30/BH12LS35 drive and went through the entire spindle without a single coaster. The disc MID is CMCMAG-BA5. Recording surface is sapphire, low thickness, and does not have a hard coat. Post-recording shows constant linear velocity burn with same shade/color from start to finish @ 4x write speed. Even though it will overburn @ 10x, I recommend sticking with 4x for better quality. Inkjet printing surface soaks up ink pretty well and dries instantly.The fact is, materials have finite life spans and the equipment that handles it gets worn (older but still usable materials, equipment that was not working 100% during the disc manufacturing process, part of the batch may have been damaged or contaminated with other materials, etc). That's where lower grade media comes from. When manufacturers don't meet perfect to ideal specifications, the product is flagged as "not perfect but still useable" and sold off for a lower price. The products are not so damaged as to need recycle or destruction, so the manufacturer separates them into categories. The primary graded media becomes the high standard/archival grade. The secondary graded media is often sold at steep discounts to bulk resellers, and is almost always marketed as "value" or "budget" media.With that in mind, I think this product is great with good value for the money. Only time will test durability but is not expected for this price. Because it lacks the hard coat it is more prone to dust and scratches so be careful when handling the disc. I would recommend and buy this product again.-UPDATE-Panasonic, Samsung and Sony BD Drives show slight increase in burn quality, but be careful with higher burn speeds. Vibration test shows imbalance of 6.7g/mm @ 8,000rpm. That's 6x more than the allowed limit. This is what causes loud drives and if you're using an LG, it won't last long. Printing surface is inconsistent, while some prints turn out fine, others don't. The last 14 discs of 2nd spindle were damaged and useless.

Out of nearly 100 disks I have burned, I have had only 1 bad burn. However, out of all that I have burned, 3 have cracked, starting in the hub. The cracking is NOT due to abusive handling sine they all have been placed into protective Blu-Ray cases. This is not good since I have recorded them, verified them, sent them out and then get a message back that they cracked. Since I am making review copies of a yet-to-be-released feature film, that is pretty annoying. One cracked during the initial burn process and the other two a few weeks later.However, compared to some other brands, this one is not that bad. In my opinion, the Optical Quantum brand has to have the worst quality and yields. Also, I have not seen cracked disks since the first 50 disk cake box.The odd part of this is that I have never seen this cracking problem on any the regular ValueDisk DVD blanks, either -R or +R, just these BD-R disks.Update:After going through nearly 300 additional disks, I have had only 3 duds and no broken disks. Pretty good odds.

The failiure rate on the white labels isn't great. The silver ones with ValueDisc printed on one side fare better.Update: June 21 2017-- thrown this to 1 star. White labels pure crap. :( Failure rate I've toss about 25 discs out of this 50 pack. so Value Stink more like it. The ones that actually say Value Disc on the label , very rarely have any issues but these. Come On Value Disc get with the program :( I had a better success rate with the Picasso discs everyone I guess hated. LTH discs? Whatever, The fail rate was about 5 % not 60 %

This is the second spindle of these disks I have bought. Actually, I bought the second one by accident. I ordered without checking to see that this was the same brand and kind as the other one I purchased late last year. I can not get full capacity out of these disks. If I try, I get recording errors . So, I have to back off about 3 GB then they seem to record ok. To be fair I don't know if it is my drive, or these disks. I know I have used two other brands and have not had any problems recording up to full capacity.

Works as expected if you don't burn faster than it is rated.They are rated for 6x so I burn at 6x and have gone through over half the spindle burning with verification on and have not had one fail yet.Update: I finished the spindle and out of 50 disks I lost only 3 that is acceptable for a $20 spindle of 50 disks to me, you would probably get the same from the more expensive brands.

I have been using these for a long time. These disks seem to be as good as the more expensive ones. I really can't say anything bad about them.

I've had so many medium errors with these discs. Keep getting write and medium errors with these. I seem to waste most of the disc trying to burn data onto them. If anyone has any idea if this is something that can be fixed please comment below.

Took a flyer on these, what a waste of time and money. The batch I got was complete junk. MID CMCMAG-BA5. I got maybe 3 or 4 out of 20, and those at 2x, before giving up and throwing the rest out.

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