Good DVDs! (Verbatim DVD-R 4.7 GB 8x)

Member Name: heekeer

Product:	Verbatim DVD-R 4.7 GB 8x
Date:	21/08/09 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: They always work for me, good spindle design

Disadvantages: Cant re write them

Verbatim DVD -R are disks made by Verbatim.

The disks come on a spindle with a plastic wrap around it that reads Verbatim DVD -R, there is an orange pattern which is different to the +R disks which come in a purple pattern. The spindle itself is made from a sturdy plastic and it has a locking mechanism to prevent the lid falling off and the disks smashing or getting scratched.

The spindle twists open easily and you will find inside 50 disks stacked one on top of the other with a paper insert with more Verbatim logos on it. The disks themselves are plain apart from a few Verbatim logos and again the -R logo. They can be written on in permanent marker which is good for remembering what you have written to the disk.

Each of the 50 disks is a single layered DVD and can hold up to 4.7GB of data, you can burn them at drive speeds of up to 16x and they can hold the equivalent of 200 minutes of video.

I use Windows DVD maker to create my DVDs and it is really easy to add videos and photos to the disks that will play in any DVD player, I have never had a Verbatim disk fail to work properly either in the creation stage or when it is put into a DVD player. I have also used the windows manager to simply drag and drop files on to DVD which is dead handy for bringing documents from place to place or securely backing up your data again I have had no issues with the disks.

The only downside to the disks are they are only writable once so you cannot modify the data that exists on them, they are a lot cheaper than the Rewritable option however.

Before your purchase the only thing you need to know is if your DVD drive will support -R disks, you can do this simply by checking the front of your DVD drive as it will usually say.

Summary: Good for saving your stuff and making your own DVD disks.

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