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Question

SpeedX DVD-R disks - good enough quality for recovery disks?

Mar 25, 2012 12:13PM PDT

I have a 50-pack of SpeedX DVD-R disks, bought at Sam's. I want to use them as recovery disks, and didn't have time to research them before buying if I wanted to get them today, but now I can't find anything on them. The package only says:

SpeedX DVD-R 16X 4.7 GB Data/120 MIN Video
Branded Logo
Item NO.SillySX-016
Made in Taiwan

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Many would say
Mar 25, 2012 9:06PM PDT

Go with a known brand when doing something considered important, like a backup. Verbatim is one of the highest rated for reliable disks, especially the DL DVD's. I would not use "band X" for anything important until I used them for something not so important first to see how they preform.

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Unknown quality factor
Mar 25, 2012 11:56PM PDT

Brand-XYZ types tend to be bulk made and generally aren't for prolonged storage, though they may last. However, do you really want to trust that fact and find out the hard way? Cheap is cheap and if all you wanted was for recovery discs, then the extra cost is worth "peace of mind". There is no ready answer for you, because you wanted quality and expect it from some unknown brand which you can't find info for, so you answered you're own question, as in "unknown ".

tada -----Willy Happy

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One more copy.
Mar 26, 2012 12:30AM PDT

If folk follow the complaints about restore media, they read about not having one and also when one of the discs are lost or damaged. Why they usually let you make ONE SET, nothing stops you from duplicating that set and storing the extra set somewhere else.
Bob