Which DVD±RW manufacturers are considered more reliable and which should be avoided?

Question

Compact disc

... in terms of recording quality, data storage reliability. Price also matters. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

At one time, there was a very useful experience - how to distinguish discs (erks) produced by Taiyo Yuden among those that were sold under the Verbatim brand (the Verbatim Pastel series in slim-boxes, for example, came from TY). You could also find Japanese Panasonic - but only minus ones.
Following in quality were those produced at the factories of MCC (Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation).
The rest was not considered as reliable storage. And the logo on the box means nothing. Verbatim could put the "Data Life Plus" sign on their boxes, but if the discs themselves came from Indian factories, they quickly died.
With RW, I have a different story - a simpler one. Always bought only TDK. They were quite successful in hiding exactly where the blanks were produced, but at the same time they ensured consistently high quality. None of the dozens of DVD+RWs I've managed to kill over the years of operation.
I wanted to advise exactly TDK, but my experience is most likely outdated. Now I suddenly discovered that TDK seems to have sold a license to manufacture drives to Imation in 2007 .

Answer 2

Verbatim and only him.
Exceptionally personal experience.
In all my life, not a single blank of this manufacturer has ever failed.

Answer 3

Recently I threw out old reels from the mezzanine, ~50% CD-R, >50% from the Melody brand (average price), >90% recorded more than 5 years ago. About 200 discs passed through the drive in 2 days, in ~ 20% of cases files were read in addition to browsing directories. I myself was surprised, but I found only 2 heavily scratched discs that read badly - with errors and slowly. This despite the fact that all this was stored very carelessly, and there were a lot of scratches. In general, if I knew then such statistics (fails 1 out of 100 discs), I would write important information simultaneously on 2 discs of ANY different manufacturers or, at least, batches. That. the probability of data loss would be 1 in 10,000, i.e. 99.99% uptime. Brandophilia, I think, would help win back a few tenths of a percent in return for 99%. By the way,