How many DVD-R's do you buy each month?

[atreides93]

How many DVD-R's do you guys burn through per month? Just curious.

I bought a 100-pack about 2 months ago and its still got about 30 left

[vikodin]

20 to 30 ... I buy DVD-PRO in bulk, although I'm reading some bad reviews about it and personal experience seems to indicate that some of it might be true (unreadable after 6 months).

[gooki]

My purchases for the month of feburary.

500 DVD+R
1000 DVD-R (300 optodisc, 700 ritek)
100 DVD-RW
100 DVD+RW
30 DVD-R authoring (4.7GB gold)
50 4x DVD-R (Ritek)
50 DVD-Ram (4.7GB)

I'm prety sure that's it.

Still waiting on 410 DVD-R from accu/prodisc.

And also purchased 2 toshiba sdr5002 writers, and two casio thermal printers.

[padre]

I average about 100 Ritek (printables) every month. I usually buy once a month, but decided to buy 200 of them last month when I saw the price rise coming.

[atreides93]

hey gooki you sure buy a lot!!

i can't believe how fast the ritek's went up in price. that sucks. i hope they come down again soon. i think i'll hold off on buying another 100 pack for now.

[gooki]

Yeah I'm glad I got my riteks while the price was good.

$0.95 each for the first 200, $0.85 for the 500 pack.

The discs above will probably last our company about a three months. Lol if I used that many discs for personal use I'd have no life.

[Xayd]

Bout 20 a month here too, and I'm almost out of this spindle of 50 Riteks. I knew I shoulda bought a 100 pack when they were cheap :(.

[waldok]

So gooki, you're saying you "backuped" almost 1830 movies you own, only in one month time...Well that's 65 backups per day, which is 2.7 backups per hour...Gee, you guy also have 1830 computers home or what ? I'm extremely...impressed (or was it doubtful...) :p


As far as I am concerned, and considering I also have other things to do in life like spending time with family and friends, I would say I've used about 10 DVD-Rs in February. Shame on me... :D

Waldok:cool:

[gooki]

quote from me:

"The discs above will probably last our company about a three months. Lol if I used that many discs for personal use I'd have no life."

quote from waldok:

"So gooki, you're saying you "backuped" almost 1830 movies you own, only in one month time...Well that's 65 backups per day, which is 2.7 backups per hour...Gee, you guy also have 1830 computers home or what ? I'm extremely...impressed (or was it doubtful...)"

Waldok please read all the thread before you make accusation. I'd also like it if you didn't make presumptions about what our company does, and try to make me out to be a liar, because the figures stated above by myself is true.

[waldok]

Well gooki,

I'm really sorry, as I missed your second post and based my "ironical" answer on your first one, which really looked "unbelievable".
Now as the initial question was about how many DVD-R people usually burn through a month, I presumed it was about"individuals" and not companies.

Sorry for that.
Hope you won't mind too much.

Waldok:cool:

[moriaty]

i've burned like 50 now, both on 1-speed mia as on 4x media... still trying to get a hold of 2x media at a good price...

[gooki]

Not a worry waldok.

Personally I go through about 50 a month. Movies, data etc.

[vikodin]

Is everyone using Riteks? I'm on Princo (DVDPro) but seriously considering changing media.

[atreides93]

Princo's got a really bad reputation....that's possibly why they're still cheap while the Ritek's are going up in price.

[klona]

New princo (bulkpaqG4 2X) are perfect if burned @1X and nice if burned @X2 (same result than ritek G03 for me)

[b_1_2_3]

Originally posted by klona
New princo (bulkpaqG4 2X) are perfect if burned @1X and nice if burned @X2 (same result than ritek G03 for me)

klona: ive been using Ritek's but since the price jump i am trying
Princo. No failed burns yet, thankfully.

Stupid question: how can i tell if i got "New princo (bulkpaqG4 2X)"?

Also: is it true that some princo disks can not be read after a few months? that would stink :(

[Fmazzanti]

Hi,
well I must be a weak backupper since I bought five 10 DVD-R spindles one month and a half ago and still have some 32 DVD-R to burn. According tyo your figures, I should be quicked off this forum :D

[waldok]

FMazzanti,

you're not the only one. Bought 25 spindle 2 months ago (!!!), still have 10 of these, and now bought another 25 spindle (verbatim DVD+R) 2 weeks ago and still have...24 of these :D

I'm a lame backuper :p

Waldok:cool:

[disturbed1]

I order 200 Ritek, 100 Verbatim a week, and 200-300 cheapies (Princo, LD, etc) a month.

Originally posted by b_1_2_3
Stupid question: how can i tell if i got "New princo (bulkpaqG4 2X)"?


I believe they have a TDK media info code viewable with ADVInfo.

Originally posted by b_1_2_3
Also: is it true that some princo disks can not be read after a few months? that would stink :(

Take care of 'em, and keep them away from heat and they should last.

I have many year+ old Princo that I retrieve data from everyday. My girlfriend just watched the Nightmare On Elm Street collection which was backed up 10 months ago. I did have a couple of bad discs that was due to poor storage and handling.

The 1x do have problems with the outer edge, so I kept all of mine at under 4gig. A few DVD players may give playback problems (skipping and pixels after 10 or so minutes) but they work fine with Apex, PS2, and a few others. But not some Toshiba, or older Philips. Get a small pack to try out. I personally don't distribute cheapies, but do use them for myself.