View Full Version : Re: Verbatim MediDisc Metal Azo
I have no experience with those particular Verbatim discs. Though I use a different model and they are great.
ian lucero
10-06-2004, 07:39 PM
I have no experience with those particular Verbatim discs. Though I use a different model and they are great.
I guess i'm mainly concerned with Archival Life. Verbatim claim they have 'long' archival life (100years). The reason I asked about the MediDisc model is that this model has an extra scratch resistant coating. I'm confused cause it says it's on the "top" Does that mean label side or record side? In anycase, Verbatim has been around forever, I use to buy their floppies when I had my C64. Are there other companies that make the same claims?
thanks for the response.
GenJerDan
10-07-2004, 07:02 AM
I'm confused cause it says it's on the "top" Does that mean label side or record side?
The top (i.e. label) side is the record side, for all intenst and purposes.
The side that gets lasered is just plastic. The laser goes through that and hits a thin layer of [whatever the heck it is], then there's another very thin layer of plastic on the other side of the [whatever], and the label goes onto that.
Scratches on the label are more likely to made a disc unreadable than scratches on the other side.
Weird, eh?
Dan
ian lucero
10-09-2004, 12:37 PM
So no other company besides Verbatim offers long archival life discs? Or is that Verbatim is the only company advertising it this way and most disc companies (TayoYuden, Ritek, ProDisc) have pretty much the same durability and archival life?
Neil Rowe
10-09-2004, 01:04 PM
the life rating of the discs for the companies you mentioned is
100 yrs +.. do you need it to be longer?
ian lucero
10-09-2004, 06:11 PM
the life rating of the discs for the companies you mentioned is
100 yrs +.. do you need it to be longer?
NOt necessary that they be longer. I was just wondering if Verbatim is the only company that can claim this 100+ archival life and if I'll have to throw down more money to buy Verbatim Discs when I already have Ritek and ProDisc brand DVD's.
I can assume that 'plastic' will not last over 150 years and will start to degrade. Hopefully by the time 50 or even 20 years comes up on the life of the discs I can transfer them to whatever the best medium of that decade is - maybe a mix of diamond and gold platters that are only 2" and float and can be transported to the screen, or whatever viewing device we have by then, via mental telepathy.
word
And holograms! Don't forget holograms!
GenJerDan
10-11-2004, 06:34 AM
NOt necessary that they be longer. I was just wondering if Verbatim is the only company that can claim this 100+ archival life and if I'll have to throw down more money to buy Verbatim Discs when I already have Ritek and ProDisc brand DVD's.
Well, Verbatim has been around for over 100 years, so they know...oh...wait a sec. No, they haven't.
Sounds like a guesstimate to me, plus hoping you won't be around in 100 years to complain about it.
Dan
Neil Rowe
10-11-2004, 07:17 AM
..i personally would go with any of the brads you listed ian. those are pertty much the top ones.. the ritek/ridata ones tend to be best available value in bundles that ive found.