Eighth string was totally dead out of the box and barely made it to the tuner on my Solar 1.8C. Nice to not have to cut it but how long will the next one be? The strings that are not dead out of the box sound nice and have a medium tension on a 27" scale. They seem to last a medium amount of time.
DR are known to occasionally have a dead string out of the box. Next pack will probably be fine but these are not cheap...