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Description

Chapter 5 – Most Reliable Blank DVD media analysis

	Media String	Manufacturer	Uses	Success Ratio
1	CMC MAG-E01-00	CMC	675 945	95.08%
2	CMC MAG. AE1	CMC	653 651	94.28%
3	RITEKG05	RITEK	652 072	95.37%
4	PRINCO -R	PRINCO	552 776	94.42%
5	TYG02	TAIYO YUDEN	545 432	94.92%
6	RITEK-R03-02	RITEK	529 666	96.57%
7	MCC 03RG20	MCC	465 940	95.54%
8	MCC-004-00	MCC	418 623	96.35%
9	CMC MAG-M01-00	CMC	392 808	95.51%
10	MCC-003-00	MCC	362 819	95.17%
11	MCC 02RG20	MCC	351 746	95.03%
12	CMC MAG. AM3	CMC	313 428	94.52%
13	YUDEN000-T02-00	TAIYO YUDEN	265 788	95.53%
14	TTG02	TAIYO YUDEN	256 339	92.43%
15	SONY08D1	SONY	241 830	95.11%
16	RITEKF1	RITEK	231 556	93.86%
17	TTH02	TAIYO YUDEN	227 802	94.37%
18	RICOHJPN-R03-04	RICOH	225 451	96.14%
19	FUJIFILM03	FUJI	225 005	92.74%
20	OPTODISCR008	OPTODISC	202 617	93.22%
21	MBIPG101-R04-01	MBI	182 202	96.17%
22	SONY-D11-00	SONY	166 598	95.43%
23	OPTODISC-OR8-00	OPTODISC	158 297	96.03%
24	PHILIPS-041-00	PHILIPS	155 559	94.40%
25	ProdiscF01	PRODISC	148 310	94.16%
26	SONY-D21-00	SONY	146 356	95.81%
27	RICOHJPN-W11-01	RICOH	124 248	93.01%
28	INFODISC-A10-01	INFODISC	112 099	94.76%
29	UME01	(unknown)	103 322	95.49%
30	SONY16D1	SONY	102 520	94.28%

CMC, RITEK and PRINCO are leading the chart. The most reliable media are the RITEK-R03-02 and the MCC-004-00, which are respectably at the 6th and the 8th place. MCC is better known as VERBATIM and Mitsubishi brand name.

Like in the “Popular drives analysis” (Chapter 4), the success ratio reaches 95 % , which enables you to figure out which is a “good” or “”bad” media. You can also notice that the TTG02 and the FUJIFILM03 are not very impressive, maybe because TTG02 is a well-known pirated media ID.

How to know if you have good or bad drive and media?

There is an implemented feature in VSO Inspector, a free diagnostic and reporting tool, with which you can request the average success rate for the inserted media, and the success rate in the drive you are using.
1) Download VSO-Inspector here: download section
2) Select the drive to diagnose from the top combo (NEC 4550 in our example)
3) Select the Media tab
4) Insert a blank media (a Ritek05 DVD-R in our example) and wait for the media to be recognized
5) Press the Query Database button (be patient our server is overloaded, so it can take some time).

You will see
#1 the success rate (94.1%) and the number of reports for the media inserted
#2 the success rate (99%) and the number of reports (509 samples here) for the media burnt with a NEC 4550.

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