When buying Professional Optical Media, pay attention to these points
Choosing the right product is always challenging. With all this competition on international markets, we may find a wide variety of options on the shelves out there: it is always about choices we make. But what defines our choice: is it price, quality, logo, recommendations of friends? Normally it is a combination of many factors that define our choice.
Choices that consumers make are driven by different types of triggers, but when you are purchasing something very specific and technical, it is necessary to be rational, as your choice can actually influence many things in future. It is very true for the market we operate in – data storage and informational security.
Choosing the right optical media may also be challenging, as there are so many manufacturers and everyone claims superior quality and longevity, however not all of them are transparent and honest in what they actually communicate in their promotional messages.
Here are some points worth paying attention to, when choosing the right optical media:
Raw material: Quality comes from Quality!
Reliable sourcing of high-quality raw materials is the fundamental element to manufacture quality products.
FTI uses the best Polycarbonate, internally develops our high-grade dye and utilizes the best material for its Optical Media recording layers such as Silver, Gold and Platinum in order to minimize batch-to-batch variation and reliable definition and selection of archival grade discs.
Lifetime Claims: Check the source!
Some manufacturers claim product durability that lasts for years, even hundreds of years, but do not explain how they came up with their figures or back up their claims.
FTI Archival grade Optical discs have estimated archival lifetimes exceeding 100 years or even 300 years. These lifetime estimations are obtained using recognize and verifiable Industry storage tests so called accelerated lifetime tests. Mathematical models such as the Arrhenius model 1.1 or the Eyring model 1.2 extrapolates the lifetimes observed at high storage temperatures into expected lifetimes at room temperature and enable predictions of how many years the recorded data can safely be recovered when the discs are stored at normal room or office temperatures.
Dye and Recording Layer Resistance: The Best for Less!
The metal layer(s) used must be corrosion resistant to offer robustness against minor included defects over the lifetime of the disc. Gold reflecting layers offer this robustness at an increase in cost over silver.
FalconMedia Archival grade Platinum-alloy solution is the latest development in archival grade optical discs to offer robustness while maintaining the cost advantages of optical disc storage by producing media with all the benefits of Gold media but at a more competitive price.
Quality Control Production Process: History doesn’t lie!
Finally, select a manufacturing Company that has consistently proven to supply reliable quality products. This is the best guarantee that quality control, product grading, process control and product stability are handled in a professional quality-conscious way that ensures every shipment and every disc meets the archival grade requirements.
We pride ourselves on our dedicated technical support and high-quality Control provided to our customers. FalconMedia is such a product from such a Company. FalconMedia is the perfect solution if you want to be assured your data will be retrievable and usable in the years, decades and centuries to come.
Printable Options: Consistency!
All FTI printable layers, regardless of product, adhere to FTI’s internal quality standards to ensure a consistently high-quality product regardless of product line. Our internal testing has demonstrated the following features compared to competitors:
- Superior sustainability of printable layers before and after testing
- Improved water resistance of the disc
- Greater durability due to excellent bonding with substrate
- Better results for ink drying
Guarantees: Be Covered!
The Company warrants that the Goods will be free from material defects under normal conditions of use and when used in conjunction with the appropriate equipment.
Customers can return to FTI, within 6 months of receipt of a shipment, products which are alleged to be defective or which do not comply with the order.
Security: No Forgeries Allowed!
In the security Law enforcement and legal world, security is key.
Make sure that your Optical Media is traceable and has a unique number to avoid forgeries and unauthorized copies.
FTI discs have a unique serial number and are 100% traceable!
Falcon Technologies International LLC is continuously performing benchmark and quality control tests under extreme conditions to ensure consistent batch to batch quality and product longevity.
Tests versus competitors have shown that FTI products:
- Show up to 25% better results in accelerated aging test in comparison to any other analog products
- Perform extremely well compared to notable competitors in standard industry measurements such as Tracking Errors (41% less errors) and Focus Errors (37% errors)
- Show an error rate 50% lower compared to notable competitors after 250 hours of extreme environment conditions tests (PISum8)
- Have excellent cross-compatibility with the major disc drive manufacturers including Pioneer, TEAC, Asus, Samsung and LG.
- The sustainability of FTI discs and printable layers is superior to competitors before and after testing, with a lower possibility of disc failure based on internal comparison tests.
- Show minimal disc-to-disc variation on key mechanical deviation measurements (vertical / radial / tangential deviations).