Datasafe 8X DVD+R media MCC003
 The New Datasafe 6x DVD+R |  The New Datasafe 8x DVD+R Printable |
Datasafe have kindly sent me samples of their latest 8x DVD+R media. Although the tops are different - one follows the white/silver design of previous Datasafe DVD+R the other has a white printable surface - they both have the same mid code. Therefore I will just produce the one review for both these discs
The Mid code is as follows
08 02 00 00 A1 0F 02 00 00 03 00 00 00 26 05 3F .............&.?
00 00 00 00 00 00 03 4D 43 43 00 00 00 00 00 30 .......MCC.....0
30 33 00 38 23 54 37 12 02 42 6E 02 A8 6B 15 15 03.8#T7..Bn..k..
0B 0B 08 08 01 19 1B 0C 0C 0C 0D 01 00 00 00 00 ................
I burnt several films with this media and tested the playback for compatibility. They all played smoothly in my DVD players. I burnt this media in the following drives PIONEER DVR-108, ,NEC ND-3500AG, Memorex DVDDLRWL1 F16, BENQ DW1620, LITEON SOHW1633S, TEAC DV-W516G, PLEXTOR PX-712SA
All my test drives were capable of burning at 8x to this media and as an added bonus I was able to burn at 12x speed with the BenQ DW 1620, Pioneer DVR-108 & Plextor PX-712SA.
Here are the resultant graphs
PIONEER DVR-108 V1.14 burnt at 8X speed in 8mins 15 secs
 | A burn quality test in my BenQ drive
PI peak 15, PIF peak 9 & jitter below 10% for the majority of the scan.
Scans don't come much better |
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive This scan shows a near perfect graph. What more can I say? |
PIONEER DVR-108 V burnt at 12X speed in 7mins 7 seconds
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A burn quality test in my BenQ drive
Slight increase in PI & PIF errors at the outer edge, but still a very good scan. With jitter still averaging below 10%
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive
Slightly disappointing here but still acceptable and bearing in mind this disc was burnt at 12x speed. This graph is consistent with the increased PI PIF errors in the previous chart
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NEC ND-3500AG burnt at 8X speed in 10mins 13secs
 | Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI well below 10 except for a single peak at the end of the scan, Jitter average again well below 10%, & PIF negligible
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive This scan shows an almost perfect graph again What more can I say? |
MEMOREX DVDDLRWL1 F16 vBWSE burnt at at 8X Speed in 8mins 40secs
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Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI peaks at about 80 at the beginning of the scan settling down to about 10 with a gradual increase up to 35 at the end of the scan. PIF shows an increase at the outer edge and jitter fluctuating around 10% with an overall average of 10.4%
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 | Speed test in the Toshiba drive
This scan shows a near perfect graph.
The disc is perfectly readable without errors and although the PI/Jitter tests could have been better the disc played OK without problems |
BENQ DW1620 burnt at 8x Speed in 9min 1sec
| Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI remaining below 10 for most of the scan, jitter starts well below 10% and gradually rises up to 10% at the outer edge, with PIF negligible |
 | Speed test in the Toshiba drive This scan shows a near perfect graph. and there is nothing more to say |
BENQ DW1620 burnt at 12x Speed in 7min 3sec
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Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI is very low about 5 except for the last 500meg at the outer edge at the fast speed where it raises to peak at 99, jitter just reaches over 10% at this point and there is a PIF peak of 20% Still good results for a disc burnt at 12x speed |
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive This scan shows a near perfect graph. and there is nothing more to say |
LITEON SOHW1633S burnt at at 8x Speed in 8mins 37secs
 | Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI very high at the start of the scan peaking at over 200 dropping down to about 20 until the latter part of the scan, jitter peaks at 14% in the early part of the scan and remains above 10% for most of the time, PIF peaks at 40 towards the end of the scan
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive
No errors here but some large fluctuations in the read speed after the 3 gig mark
This disc did not show any playback problems and it is within acceptable limits but the burn quality is inferior to the previous discs |
TEAC DV-W516G burnt at 8x Speed in 8min 38secs
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Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI remaining below 10 until the last 500meg when it increases to about 40, Jitter hovers around 10% for the majority of the scan averaging 10.1%. PIF a little high hear Peaking at 56 at the end of the scan |
 | Speed test in the Toshiba drive
This disc produced 1 read error and the readability is poor at the latter 500meg of the scan. |
PLEXTOR PX-712SA burnt at 8x Speed in 8mins 1sec
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Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
PI well below 10 except for the last 500 meg when there is a sharp increase to about 50 PIF also shows a high reading of 40 at this point. Jitter starts well below 10 with a steady increase up to 12% at the end of the scan with an average of 8.6
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 | Speed test in the Toshiba drive
No read errors here but a sharp dip at the outer edge
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PLEXTOR PX-712SA burnt at 12x Speed in 6min 38secs
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Burn quality as tested in the BenQ drive
Surprising this disc burnt at 12x speed produces better results than at 8x speed with a PI of well below 10 except for the last 500meg when it rises to an acceptable 20. Jitter is well below 10% for the majority of the scan peaking at 10.9, PIF so only minor peaks
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Speed test in the Toshiba drive
This scan shows a near perfect graph, much better than when burnt at 8x speed |
All the drives burnt good discs which had no problems in playback. The Teac did however have 1 read error. The discs burnt at 8x speed in the Pioneer, Benq & the NEC produced exceptionally good results and even when burnt at 12x speed the results are still good. The Teac & Liteon produced the worst results followed by the Memorex and although the graphs are erratic the resultant discs played back flawlessly with a wide range of DVD players. I timed the recording times with these drives both at 8X speed and 12x speed and here is the list with the fastest first
| MAKE | MODEL | FIRMWARE | SPEED | TIME |
| Plextor | PX-712SA | 1.05 | 12x | 6m38s |
| BenQ | DW-1620 | B7S9 | 12x | 7m03s |
| Pioneer | DVR-108 | 1.18 | 12x | 7m07s |
| Plextor | PX-712SA | 1.05 | 8x | 8m01s |
| Pioneer | DVR-108 | 1.18 | 8x | 8m15s |
| Liteon | SOHW-1633S | BS0R | 8x | 8m37s |
| Teac | DV-W516G | B4S6 | 8x | 8m38s |
| Memorex | DVDDLRWL1 F16 | BWSE | 8x | 8m40 |
| BenQ | DW-1620 | B7S9 | 8x | 9m01s |
| NEC | ND-3500AG | 2.18 | 8x | 10m13s |
Here you can see the Plextor is the fastest at both 8x speed and 12x speed with the NEC bringing up the rear at a miserable 10m13s.
With the exception of the Liteon drives these discs produced excellent burns and even the Liteon burns did not give any playback problems.
The printable surface on the printable version of these discs have an area of 42mm X 118mm and it is smooth with clear defined edges and produces vivid print quality with my Epson R300 add to this the bonus of being able to burn these satisfactory at 12x speed with stock firmware on the most popular drives I will say "Datasafe You Have a Winner!!"
Another DVD+R disc to add to my list of preferred media.
Added: Friday, December 10, 2004
Reviewer: Flashhits: 15653
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