Memorex 32020013358 25GB 4X Write-Once BD-R Blu-ray Discs (15pk Spindle)
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Customer Review: Do you want to do it twice!?
Summary: 1 Stars
Resides the price I do not see any reason to buy this "Bad Quality" Blu-rays, if you are planed to storage files, music or photos you probably have success because the PC usually are able to read them for a while, but at the end (1 to 2 years) you will lost all your data, so I will recommend you to buy the new model by Panasonic Panasonic Blu-ray Disc 20 Pack - 25GB 6X BD-R - Printable that will last forever!
If we are talking about transfer Movies into this awful Memorex Blu-ray the bad ending will be sooner... you won't be able to see then in you Blu-ray Player after 3 to 5 months, so what it the idea to do all over again?????? For Movie the best ones out there are made by TDK, any of them will last for ever and the choice will be base on the capacity and quantity needed:
25GB:TDK Blu-ray Disc 20 Spindle - 25GB 4X BD-R - Printable
25GB:TDK Blu-ray Disc 50 Spindle - 25GB 4X BD-R - Printable
50GB:TDK Blu-ray Disc 10 Pack - 50GB 4X BD-R DL - Printable
5GB:TDK Blu-ray Disc 10 Pack - 50GB 6X BD-R DL - Printable [2010 Version]
Customer Review: Expensive, but they work well - no problems after 7 months
Summary: 4 Stars
Not all Memorex products live up to their expectation. I bought some DVD-DLs that turned out to be notouriously faulty. Amazon was gracious enough to refund the purchase.
These BD-Rs seem fine so far. I have burned 5 at max speed without any failures.
I use an internal BD drive on a Dell Studio XP and have had success with all my burns. They read just fine. I would like to use them for long term archiving of digital video files, but I'll wait until I learn more about the shelf life of these discs. I also expect the price to go down.
I also made one Blu-Ray movie disc of a home video. I had been making AVCHD movies using DVD media, which allowed only about 30 minutes of video at full HD. The BD-R media allows me to fit more than 30 minutes of video (I think I can get somewhere around 2.5 hours at full HD). I burned a HD home movie to the Memorex BD-R using Pinnacle Studio 12, and it worked great. I played back in 1080p on my Sony Blu-Ray player without any problems.
My only complaint is about the price. I'll buy more when they get down around $1 each.
UPDATE: Based on the other reviews, I have been conducting experiments with discs that I burned 7 months ago. So far they seem to work fine. I'll continue to post my observations, as I am intersted in purchasing lots of BD media.
Customer Review: Thumbs down
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased these discs a little over a year ago as part of a revised Digital Asset Management workflow (I am an imaging professional). Out of the box, about one quarter of the discs failed to record or verify; not in itself a major problem, taking into account the reasonable price I paid. As part of my first of year tasks I am getting ready to archive my 2010 shooting and started by comparing the images on these BD media with the source files still on hard disk. (The copies of my work on optical media are just one part of a comprehensive file storage scheme.) I am finding errors in some of the files, but they are still accessible by Photoshop. More importantly, I have found discs on which there are *unrecoverable* errors, so these discs have now become unreliable as part of a fail-safe archival system and the source files re-burned to new discs. (I am glad I am not finding this out while having to do a complete restore!) Now, with 30 years experience in data management and nearly half that in optical storage solutions, I know that consumer-burned discs will inevitably fail and will have to be periodically re-burned. A year is what I expected out of consumer CD media, but far below what i expected for BD.
I have already placed an order for a different brand of BD disc and I sincerely hope I have better experience with them.
Customer Review: Never Backup Data on DVDs or Blu-Rays
Summary: 1 Stars
I did not buy this product from Amazon and I thank Amazon for allowing me to share my experience.
My problems weren't just limited to Memorex. Since the early days of burining CDs, I've had this problem: CDs/DVDs/BDs all burn fine and verify okay. But a few months later, when using the media, I get errors during the read - either 100% of data gone, or most of them. I've tried this with many different drives (at home, at work, on laptops) and with different media. Similar results. Some do better than others. I had problems with Memorex and several other major brands. For me, Sony did the best, but even some of my Sony DVDs have gone bad over the short few years and I've lost so much valuable data.
I question the use of any DVD/BD writer at home. These are different from DVDs you buy your movies on which are 100% optical and can't go bad too quickly. Whatever DVD you burn at home uses Opti-Magnetic material which won't last very long. Never backup to DVDs/BDs. Hard drives are so cheap nowadays (2 TB for $99. Just search Amazon), that I wonder why would anybody backup to these expensive & unrealiable DVDs and BDs? And if you must, make sure you store them away from magnets and Microwaves.
Customer Review: 15 pack spindle not all are good
Summary: 4 Stars
For more than a year I have consumed several memorex 15 pack spindles purchased from various merchants. I started using these when the price was around $6 each. At first every disc in the spindle were good, that was around 2 to 3 spindles. After that not all 15 discs were good when the price drops to more or less $3 each. Particularly the last 2 to 3 discs (at the bottom) are coasters. Everytime I open a new spindle I always use the bottom discs first and as expected 2 to 3 are coasters. These discs are manufactured by Ritek. Memorex, Ridata, and maxell are all manufactured by Ritek with identical codes. All 3 brands have coasters starting from the bottom disc of the spindle. Lately I purchased 3 spindles and opened it simultaneously and used the bottom discs first respectively, and found coasters each at least one. So when I calculate the cost of each disc, I divide the cost of the 15pk spindle by 12 (not 15). I still find it cheaper compared to verbatim. If its not a coaster, the quality to me is at par with verbatim. These discs writes at 4x with my buffalo mediastation blu-ray/HD-DVD combo writer which I discovered to be made by panasonic.