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For anyone who has burned CD's for Music, or Data, I've found VERBATIM CD'S are the worst. The average seek time is > 7 seconds for newly burned discs. I thought I had a problem with my CD-RW Drive, so I cleaned the optical laser with a cleaning CD, then lightly cleaned it out with compressed air. I tried other brands from TDK, Maxell, Imation, CD-R's and they all work fine.
I also looked at the model of my player to make it was MULTI-READ COMPLIANT, and it is. It appears that the stamped out( bright silver surface type) CD's from the Software Companies work the best. The average seek time is less then a couple seconds. These VERBATIM CD-R's, the surface refectivity is very low, so the laser takes longer for it to read the CD. If there was a mechanical problem with my drive, it would of showed up on ALL the discs, not just Verbatim CD-R's but it doesn't. My friend had the same problem with a burned CD I gave him from the stack, and he has a Brand new SONY CD_RW/DVD Writer Drive on his system.
Avoid them like the plague! I'm thinking of dumping these CD-R's and buying some others to replace them. You might have better luck with your machine,model,make etc, but I will never buy these again!!
For those who are wondering which ones I'm refering to, on the side of the blue and white packaging, there is a reorder number# 95028
I wrote Verbatim a Email,I notified them that there could be manufacturing flaw with the CD-R's I got at christmas.
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-Neil