* 10X CD-RW 50 pack spindle for $34.50 @ outpost.com

[jaybittle]

Link

Not sure of the quality, or the maker -- these are probably silver on silver and generic. But less than $0.75 a disk make it kinda hot..

Outpost.com also has this - 50 pk 24x CD-R cakebox for $7.00. Best price I've seen in a while, even if they are generic..

cheers,
--jb

 

[daimon]

this deserves a BUMP

 

[ganesha]

I'm not sure if the 700MB 80 min is accurate. As far as I know, CD-RW's only come in the 650MB 74 min flavor.

 

[technician]

I have some Memorex 700mb (80 minute) 4x CD-RWs sitting on my desk right now.

 

[chizow]

Anyone tried these? Would be nice for my new CoolPix 885 as it might take a few months to shoot a CDR worth of pictures.

Chiz

 

[XZeroII]

CompUSA is the only place I've seen with 80min 10x discs. A friend got some and they seem to work well. This isn't bad if you want 50 CD-RW's.

 

[EliteForces]

finally a good deal on cdrw faster than 4x.

thanks

 

[jaybittle]

I ordered and should have them either today or tomorrow.. Not sure if the Airborne Express guy will leave them w/o signature, so today or tomorrow.. I'll let people know the quality, CDInfo -- if I can find the program, and vendor once I get them..

I'm going to be using them for CD-RW Norton Ghost images of my drives.. so far a much cheaper solution than buying a tape backup drive and tapes..

cheers,
--jb

 

[SpudsteR]

Detailed Description (Manufacturer# KHC232450000 K) [return to top]

Features:
Multi-speed recording from 1X to 24X
Certification from 24X writer manufacturers
Compatible with branded writes up to 24X
Specifications:
Material:
Substrate: Polycarbonate
Recording Layer: Cyanine Dye
Reflective Layer: Ag alloys
Protective Layer: Lacquer
Disc Characteristics:
ATER: <10% Ave over 10 sec
Reflectivity: >0.65
I3R(m3)Avg: 0.3-0.7
I11R(M11)Avg: >0.6
Cross Talk: <0.50
BLER max: 220 counts/sec.
Jitter: <35ns
E32(Cu): 0
Recording / Playback Characteristics:
Data Storage Capacity: 700MB
Recording Time: 80min
Scanning Velocity: 1.20 ~ 1.25 m/s
Environment Requirements:
Recording Temperature C: -5 ~ 55 C
Recording Humidity %RH: 5% ~ 95%
Playback Temperature: -40 ~ 70 C
Playback Humidity %RH: 5% ~ 95%

 

[RossMAN]

Last night I saw a 20 pack of TDK 10x CD-RWs for $29.99 at CostCo B&M, I think those figures are correct.

Next time I visit CostCo I'll write down all the details and will report back here.

 

[rodan]

Will these cd-rw's work in a cdplayer after recording to them?

 

[Pothead]

For older cd-players, no. You need to check the compatibilty of your cd-player, some of the aiwas play cdrws

 

[cuteybunny]

cdrw is really useless due to the rewrite speed of 10x so about 8min to burn 700megs and incompatibility problem with cd player, playstation, dvd, and most older cdrom ranging from 2x-24x. also there much more expensive then CDR. so why spend 5 times more when you can get get 250 CDR and burn more this way? I have about 200 CDR and only 20 CDRW that I spend nearly as much as CDR which IMO ridiculous. I will be buying 250 more CDR, not 50 CDRW that would fill up in no time.

 

[technician]

CDRWs are nice for many things, because you can write and rewrite them. If you have a newer CD player, nearly all of them being released now feature CDRW playback. I can surely wait 8 minutes to burn 700MBs to a CDRW...my old 4x CDR burner took 15 minutes. Another thing that I (and perhaps others) suffer from, is that I feel like I'm wasting something when you burn a CDR, and only use it once before it's "outdated", and then it's trashed. Heck, I don't even burn CDRs unless it's filled to nearly max.

Another nice thing about the 10x media, is that with DirectCD, it's like you have (in this case) 50 700MB hard drives laying around

 

[jebus]

<< CDRWs are nice for many things, because you can write and rewrite them. If you have a newer CD player, nearly all of them being released now feature CDRW playback. I can surely wait 8 minutes to burn 700MBs to a CDRW...my old 4x CDR burner took 15 minutes. Another thing that I (and perhaps others) suffer from, is that I feel like I'm wasting something when you burn a CDR, and only use it once before it's "outdated", and then it's trashed. Heck, I don't even burn CDRs unless it's filled to nearly max.

Another nice thing about the 10x media, is that with DirectCD, it's like you have (in this case) 50 700MB hard drives laying around >>



I couldn't have said it better! I waste so much time organizing my stuff so it fits perfectly on a CDR, but with my old 4x 650mb CDRWs, I just throw whatever at it. When I fill it up, then I burn all that stuff onto a CDR and erase the CDRW for another burn. Also xbox only reads CDRW's and not CDR's!

oh and also thanks for the deal!

 

[jaybittle]

<< cdrw is really useless due to the rewrite speed of 10x so about 8min to burn 700megs and incompatibility problem with cd player, playstation, dvd, and most older cdrom ranging from 2x-24x. also there much more expensive then CDR. so why spend 5 times more when you can get get 250 CDR and burn more this way? I have about 200 CDR and only 20 CDRW that I spend nearly as much as CDR which IMO ridiculous. I will be buying 250 more CDR, not 50 CDRW that would fill up in no time. >>



CDRW's are perfect for me because I want to be able to create a backup ghost image of my 40 gig hard drive.. I want to reuse the same set over and over, or have two sets of backups, and dont' want to waste CDR's...

cheers,
--jb

 

[davesaudio]

my Sony DVD changer only plays CDRW (not CDR) for audio and Video CD
that seems to be a good reason...

Dave

 

[Vette73]

Anybody know where to find 10X CD-RW's cheap, where you don't have to buy 50. Only need 5 or so.

??

 

[Jerboy]

<< Link

Not sure of the quality, or the maker -- these are probably silver on silver and generic. But less than $0.75 a disk make it kinda hot..

Outpost.com also has this - 50 pk 24x CD-R cakebox for $7.00. Best price I've seen in a while, even if they are generic..

cheers,
--jb >>




Those 50packs are made by CMC Magnetics. They also come in five pack. It totally sucks. If you look carefullly you can actually see little blister on just about each disc and their CD-RW writes fine, but fails to read in most cheap slightly older Multi-read capable CD-ROM drives that can read Verbatim CD-RW's just fine.

 

[cremefilled]

Marlin1975, I don't know if this is nationwide (and it's not on their website), but my local b&m Office Max has 10-packs of Kingston 10X CDRW's for $9.99.

On the utitility of CDRW's, I enjoy burning off 10 hours of MP3's for my portable CD/MP3 player in about 8 minutes. My MP3 player before that was a tiny one that used a parallel connection and took 6 minutes to fill 30 minutes of 128 kbps. Ugh. I also enjoy taping talk radio--Car Talk, Fresh Air, etc.--and burning it to CDRW (full 16-bit/44.1kHz) so that I can play it in my car stereo. I use a CDRWin cuesheet that places a new track every 5 minutes so that's it's easy to skip over segments I don't like.