Bought a cheap Dell computer system, and it came with a cheap DVD RW that never really worked, replaced it with a drive from Office Max and got all these Power Calibration Errors (0XC0AA0301)... took computer into tech shop and kid said that the drive was bad, replace it

Why does Amazon keep shipping sensitive electronic equipment, computer equipment (hard drives in particular) and media with hardly any packing material

so you write it to the Verbatim DVD media and if your hard drive crashes you can't reinstall the OS.In 30 years of data processing as an IT

I hardly ever use them with some many flash drives so cheaply available, but it's a handy thing to keep around for those once-in-a-blue-moon times that you need to write out media permanently

Confirmed it is the media by using different authoring software in different machines - same source files and scanning the source files on the hard drive(s) with data verification software

It' will not destroy or damage your drive, but just made lot of noise

I thought I found a bad batch once, but it ended up being a failing hard drive

I have made the mistake in thinking that I had bad discs when it was really my drive getting old and not burning correctly

If I successfully burn a data disc that can be read by my PC's drive, it usually has Cyclic Redundancy Check errors--spots that can't be read at all.

Problem was the media, was using HP 16x media, and the newer/cheaper drives are just not as forgiving as the older ones

Why does Amazon keep shipping sensitive electronic equipment, computer equipment (hard drives in particular) and media with hardly any packing material

I am surprised that it can do two ways as a DVD, one is DVD player and one is USB fresh drive.

I scanned with all drives capable of PIE/PIF scanning to be sure it wasn't just a scanner that didn't like Verbatims and tried Kprobe v. Nero v. Plextools; the patterns remained similar.

What the heck, it's a brand new drive

I used to use a external hard drive but it started to become

These are the best dvd+r's out there

Verbatim consistently makes the best DVD-R's

I have been using Verbatim AZOs both +r and -r for many years religiously and my archives from a decade ago still work great.

the best quality dvd-r's!

Bought the +R, but the =R probably would have sufficed as well.

The +R are hard to find where we live.

I have burnt many DVDs on Verbatim (both +R and +RW) and Verbatim has excellent quality

I RECOMMEND THESE BLANK DVD + R

I know that supposedly DVD-R is more widely compatible, but I have never had a problem with these DVD+Rs.

Best DVD+R

I've never had a bad Verbatim DVD+R or DVD-R disc.

These are the same great DVD+R that Verbatim has made for years in Taiwan, I have uploaded images of what I have received when ordered

Really nice DVD+R discs.

I am now using these +R without issues, so far on the same laptops, which are ACER Aspire's: one running Vista and the other running WIN 7.Overall, they work for me, which means as long as they are made the same, I'll keep buying these DVD+R in the future

Good price on a real consistent +R DVD.