Conclusion:

As the selection of media that uses a “24 carat Gold layer” is not large at all, we have at this time no other similar results to compare the EMTEC CD-R Gold results with.

In our tests we had one coaster out of five burns, if this was due to the media or a badly supported media by the drive itself is not known.

The manufacturer and ATIP of this media state it is Moulages Plastiques de l’Ouest (MPO) and is not that common around the globe, so we would categorize it as exotic.

According to EMTEC, the media should use a “24 carat Gold reflecting layer”, this means – the media should be corrosion free and give “outstanding” molecular properties which should give the media a very long lifetime.

The results achieved in this review are the combined results of the quality of the media, the compatibility of the media with the recording drives, the quality of the recording drives, and the reading and reporting behaviour of the scanning drives.

The result was unacceptable with one recording drive. The four other drives managed to produce perfectly readable results but with more correctable errors than we would like to have seen.

The EMTEC CD-R Gold media is capable of producing good results when recorded in a drive with good support for this media, but not all of the drives tested have good support for this media in current firmware. Choosing the right recording drive for this media is important. 

To sum it all up, this is what we would say: "We will at the earliest – in the year 2106, know if the media really can keep up with its promise of 100 years of archiving ".

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