BD-R 25GB 16X Blu-ray Recordable Media Disc DataLifePlus White Inkjet Hub Printable - 50pk Spindle - 97339

Been using Verbatim Blu-ray discs for several years as the Sonys were getting hard to find and quite expensive. These seem to work fine if you have a good optical burner. I think the only defective ones are some I caused. Waiting to see about the longevity, the oldest recording I have is about 4 years ago.

I only buy Verbatim-brand discs for their reliability and longevity when creating the master archival backup discs for my clients' digital work product. I have been around since 2006 and have been using Verbatim brand discs for as long as there has been a choice to be made. I have yet to go back to an archived Verbatim-brand discs and had any issue with loading, data integrity or data retrieval. I cannot recommend them strongly enough.

Quality DVDs! Verbatim DataLife Plus are the Best! Spend the extra money to get these. They are worth it!

UPDATE: Though failures were due to discs, but after switch burning software from Mac Disc Utility to Toast 20, no issues, no coasters. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Not sure if this was a bad batch, but 4 out of 10 discs failed verification. At 40%, that's a pretty steep failure rate. Now it could be my writer (Pioneer BDR-XD08B) or it could be my Mac computer using Disc Utility software, so I can't say for sure that the discs were the problem, but this was my experience. I will order another batch of these 10 discs and see if there's any difference. If i keep getting fails, I'll try another writer (if I can get one) and/or I'll try a different writing app (like Toast). And if I get better results using these discs with other systems, I'll be back to let you know.

I bought a used version that was about 10% off, but only received 9 discs. That's a bad deal, as I paid the same per disc but for a used product. The fulfiller did not check this and therefore it's false advertisement. Definitely not worth returning over a single disc and I already burned the other 9 before finding this out so there's not really a way to remedy this. Of the discs that worked, 20% of the discs can only be written about 50% capacity, so there is only ~90% reliability here. I tried UDF and non-UDF on Win10 and it made no difference. The other discs worked normally. I read everything off after writing and used sha256, so I'm pretty confident they work overall. Failures are obvious at least. Edit: this was on Win10 and I have reason to believe the issue is with Windows BD burning software, not these discs. And of course the advertised 100 GB is not true, it's actually 90.2 GB per disc. Due to low price it's still not a bad deal and I'm happy overall, but a lot of frustration resulted in how unreliable these are and lack of disclaimer from the seller.

I search for, and pay a premium for, non-organic dye that is more stable and presents greater longevity. I hope this Verbatim product number 97339 is still that. This is the one product number of the Verbatim blu-ray lineup that DOES NOT SAY "LTH" (low-then-high) so, I trust that this is not the cheaper organic product. I trust that this Verbatim product number 97339 is still IN-organic dye I expect to be in the package and that it uses "HTL" (high-then-low) write strategy as a result. The color of the dye is shiny silver. That's a good indication. Used to be "HTL" was all you needed to know to get the good stuff. However, I think I have seen some blu-ray discs lately that have a purple tinge under light reflected at an angle and that would indicate somebody out there is tainting non-organic dye with organic mixes to make it cheaper. To top it off, it seems that to cover-up the issue, those tainted mixes seem to be able to cope with HTL write strategy even though they have some organic dye in the mix. So, LTH and HTL don't really tell the full story any more. I wish Verbatim would step out ahead of the pack and label these as IN-organic if that's what they are. I think they are. I hope they are! Sometimes, I need discs with the stability, longevity, and universal compatibility of the non-organic dye discs. I trust that's what these are.

This disks have 0 used space and 0 free space on them. Apparently, the disks have been finalized then packaged. Not useable for anything.

Good BD R discs. Burning must be done at 2X speed (4X is the fastest I've been able to successfully complete a burn). This version of the disc is # 98397. I use the Maxell CD 340 drive cleaner prior to burning. Too soon to comment on longevity as I've only been using these since Dec 2024