Verbatim is a name I remember way back to the times of the 5.25" floppy disk - yes I'm showing my age I know. I bought a pack of 10 of these when I was at school and they stood up to a lot of use and abuse. Those even older than myself may even remember Verbatim as a company, even before I ... Read review
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. ... more
Available in various capacities, these advanced disks enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. With Verbatim CD-R disks, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim CD-R disks feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. ... more
These advanced discs enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. With Verbatim CD-R media, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim CD-R discs also feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
Now you can push the performance limits of CD writing - it's easy with CD-R media from ... more
Verbatim. Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R disks deliver reliable, error-free recording even at blazing speeds. The secret is in Verbatim's innovative "Super Azo" recording dye, optimized to provide stable and reliable high-speed recording with excellent sensitivity and the industries widest range of compatibility for today's CD-R drives. Verbatim CD-R media also feature a dual-protection layer that safeguards the recording layer and provides a longer archival life.
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. ... more
These advanced discs enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. With Verbatim CD-R media, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim CD-R discs also feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. ... more
Available in various capacities, these advanced disks enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. With Verbatim CD-R disks, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim CD-R disks feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. ... more
These advanced discs enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. With Verbatim CD-R media, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim CD-R discs also feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
Now you can push the performance limits of CD writing - it's easy with CD-R media from ... more
Verbatim. Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-R disks deliver reliable, error-free recording even at blazing speeds. The secret is in Verbatim's innovative "Super Azo" recording dye, optimized to provide stable and reliable high-speed recording with excellent sensitivity and the industries widest range of compatibility for today's CD-R drives. Verbatim CD-R media also feature a dual-protection layer that safeguards the recording layer and provides a longer archival life.
Verbatim and Verbatim DataLifePlus CD-Recordable Discs serve the growing market of desktop ... more
CD-Recordable drives. Use them to produce and distribute your own CDs for prototype software programs, image files, multimedia presentations, and audio-recording samples. And, use them to improve your record management system by replacing microfilm and microfiche files. Super Azo offers high sensitivity for reliable high-speed recording and high reflectivity to eliminate read errors. The Super Azo recording layer not only withstands the extremely high laser and rotation speeds of the new drives, it also maximizes their performance. Verbatim has paid particular attention to the durability and light fastness of Super Azo.
Verbatim is a name I remember way back to the times of the 5.25" floppy disk - yes I'm showing my age I know. I bought a pack of 10 of these when I was at school and they stood up to a lot of use and abuse. Those even older than myself may even remember Verbatim as a company, even before I was born - in fact they go back as far as 1969. Many years later, I find myself with the same brand, only this time CDR media, each disk with a storage capacity ... ...to tell you about the Verbatim CDR media I've got here - Verbatim DataLifePlus (Fast Dry Printable) 700Mb CDR.
There are many different products in the range, catering for differing needs of data storage. I am choosing to use 700Mb CDR media, rated as 48x writing. This means that those of you with a reasonably new CD-writer can make use of it's fast write speed, myself included. It doesn't mean though, that those with an older writer, ... more
Verbatim is a name I remember way back to the times of the 5.25" floppy disk - yes I'm showing my age I know. I bought a pack of 10 of these when I was at school and they stood up to a lot of use and abuse. Those even older than myself may even remember Verbatim as a company, even before I was born - in fact they go back as far as 1969. Many years later, I find myself with the same brand, only this time CDR media, each disk with a storage capacity of more than 1500 times those original floppies.
I'll spare you the rest of my trip down memory lane, and get straight to the point, which is of course to tell you about the Verbatim CDR media I've got here - Verbatim DataLifePlus (Fast Dry Printable) 700Mb CDR.
There are many different products in the range, catering for differing needs of data storage. I am choosing to use 700Mb CDR media, rated as 48x writing. This means that those of you with a reasonably new CD-writer can make use of it's fast write speed, myself included. It doesn't mean though, that those with an older writer, can't use them - you can of course, but at a slower speed than me (down to 1x speed). 700Mb is a lot of space. I can store around 300 5 megapixel digital files, or maybe 175 MP3's - and using my writer can do this in around 4 minutes. If you are using these disks for music storage to be played on a standard CD-player, you can fit 80 minutes, however Verbatim offer a MusicLife product, particularly suited to this type of storage. You are of course not limited to storing what I have mentioned, you can backup anything you want.
These disks come with full jewel cases, packed in boxes of 10, but again other options are available. Each one is shrink-wrapped in plastic, and those useful easy open tags are included - which sometimes make it easier to break into them - except when you are in a hurry. The boxes themselves seem to be sturdy enough, not cheap and easily breakable.
As well as being a quality CDR, the Verbatim DataLifePlus product I'm using has a white printable surface. After a recent acquistion of an Epson R300 printer, capable of direct CD/DVD printing, I was longing to try this out. Epson actually recommend this product for use with the R300, so I was hoping for trouble free operation. Glad to say, they work beautifully together - great colour reproduction on the disk, sharp images, no smearing, smudging or blurring - perfectly aligned, what more could I ask for?
I've been using these for a while, and even though I've expected the odd one to fail, so far the reliability rate has been 100%. Time will tell of course as to what problems I'll have, but I'm confident that with the Verbatim brand, and it's own "Super Azo" recording dye technology, they'll last longer than I will. This technology offers protection against UV light, although I'd still recommend you don't leave them in the back of a car in summer. I'd also not recommend trying to scratch them, even though the coating on each disk supposedly offers good resistancy. Verbatim actually give each disk a lifetime warranty, and quote 100 years archival life - that's good enough for me.
The re-order code for this particular product is 43325 - and it's particular recommended for use with the Epson R300 printer. Price for a box of 10 is between £4 - £6 inc VAT, available from Dabs or ask at your favourite computer shop. Whilst you may say this isn't cheap, what price do you put on your data?
More information on Verbatim products can be found at http://www.verbatim-europe.com
Apologies for the title, it may make a few old techies snigger.
Advantages: Reliable Disadvantages: slightly more expensive than other brands
It would appear from the shelves that CD's are going the way of the good old Vinyl, into obscurity and beyond. With the DVD probably now the main media for saving files to with the exception of those knacky little USB drives CD's seem to be harder to come by these days. It's shame really they have served us so well over the years, and none more so than Verbatim.
I recently had cause to make a few audio CD's and therefore needed some media to put the music onto. I chose the 10 pack VerbatimCD-R700Mb, which came in at around £5 on Amazon, not bad that's only 50p a disc. I know you can get cheaper versions, but in the past I've ended up throwing more of those type away than I have actually been able to get anything onto.
As many of you will know the word Verbatim means word for word or exact, so the name itself ...
Advantages: PERFECT COPIES EVERY TIME. Disadvantages: NONE AS YET.
smooth and fast to copy.
LASTING SAFEGUARDS
To protect the data that you put onto a CD, Verbatim have a special coating called a dual protection layer. I'm not a techie and have no idea of the make-up of this coating, though I do know that I can rely on my copies, seemingly no matter how old they are. Verbatim say on their site that they are so confident in their product that they give a lifetime guarantee. I have never needed to ask for help from Verbatim although I notice that they do have a "Contact" email on their site, which is a good sign that they are not afraid of people asking questions.
Not re-writeable.
One word of warning I would give here is that these discs are not re-writeable discs, which is not a disadvantage over the re-writeable ones. When I put music onto disc for example, I want that 700MB of music to stay ...
Advantages: Reliable Disadvantages: More expensive
with the spools of 25 CD's for a tenner that around about 5 of these will be binned it still makes them cheaper that the Verbatim CDRs, were of about 50 CDRs I'll bin about 2 of them. I am willing to pay the extra expense for something that I know is reliable, and a product I have confidence in, which I have with these.
Now down to the technical stuff The capacity is the usuall 650mb of data and up to 80 minutes of audio. They can write at 40X which means that if you have a CD writer that is capible of doing so you could in theory burn 80 minutes of audio in 2 minutes. Though in practice it takes about 5 minutes but who is complaining, some people have told me that burning audio at high speeds diminishes the quality but I can see no technical reason for this, if anyone would care to enlighten me the feel free to leave a message.
At the end ...
The ultimate in reliability and recording performance is yours with Verbatim CD-R media. These advanced discs enable you to take full advantage of today's CD-R burners. Choose from Verbatim's DataLifePlus, MusicLifePlus or ValuLife CD-R media in economical spindles. With Verbatim CD-R media, you'll enjoy error-free performance even at the highest read/write speeds. Verbatim DataLifePlus discs feature a patented Metal Azo recording dye that reacts faster and with greater sensitivity to laser light than other dyes. This unique dye, formulated by Mitsubishi Chemical, allows for a quicker burn, so performance is ensured. Verbatim CD-R discs also feature an advanced surface coating that protects from scratches that can damage the recording layer.
