50 pack blank cdrw $4.99 for that iomega 12X

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Khazathon

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Those would be CDR's, apparently without any speed rating at all, but nice just the same.
 
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RGN

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Yes they are CD-R's but they ARE rated at 12x. I have some sitting here on my desk. They seem to work fine.
 
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valkyrie

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They are 12x, I saw them labeled as such at CompUSA.

How about the CD-RW? Anyone know a good place with 10x's?
 
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fergiboy

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I have a 4x burner and i have gone through about half of my pack of 100, about 2/3 of the cdrs will actually burn at 4x, the others burn at 2x.
 
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kaiotes

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i just burned an audio cd, w/o rating at 8x w/ the 8x4x32x
it is supposed to be rated at 4x, burned it at 8x w/o any probs.
these were the Imation audio special cds i got for free after rebate 1/2 yr ago.
now i tend to think cdr rating is just another marketing gimmick to lure more cdr sales
 
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wiseguy

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I bit on the cheap 12x CDRs as well, but did not realize they did not have the
"frosty" coating you can write on.... Can I still write on them, or do I need
to get myself a cheap CD labeler? Haven't tried any in my new Iomega 12x10x32x
drive, but I did burn a bunch of audio and video CDs earlier without a hitch;
even did the last one directly from my IBM/Plex 32X SCSI drive directly to the
Iomega...man, that thing is quick!
 
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DesignDawg

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Wiseguy....you can still write on them with a sharpie. BTW, could someone link the $5.00 CDRs at OUTPOST? This is the seond time I am hearing of it, but have yet to find it on the site.

Ricky
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Mysterie

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Does it matter that much if you have CDRs rated at 8x and you burn them at 12x? Or does the CDR automatically detect the speed of the CDR and burn accordingly. Just curious because I used to have a Creative 8432 and would burn 8x on a Imation 4x CDR.
 
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bluesky

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Yeah, I've got 12x on 4x Imation cdr. The speed rating seems not very reliable.
 
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MiniDrag

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The drive doesn't detect the CDR rating, no.

Pretty much luck of the draw - try it at high speed, if it works, great. If not, slow down.

The idea is that higher rated ones are guaranteed to work at the higher speed. Doesn't mean the lower ones won't, just that they won't promise you anything.

 
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I don't get this whole CDR speed rating business... I have some ancient CDRs left over from before there were actually CDR speed ratings at all! Back in the good ol' 1x days. I'm able to burn those just fine at 12x, along with some other non-rated disks, and some 4x rated disks. I don't suppose Burn-Proof would have anything to do with this would it? Since I have heard that the rating has to deal with how well balanced the CD is, and the dye and such; the buffer under run wouldn't be the problem, but the CD itself. I'm starting to think this whole speed rating thing is a sham to get us to pay more for "faster" disks.
 
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Owned

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ordinary pc data, most music cds, will burn fine regardless of branded speed on cdrs, but once you get to the "touchier" lasers that read thing differently, and many of us partake in those practices, then speed matters enormously and nearly all the time, the disks would not even read if not burnt at the correct speed.
 
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highwire

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My plex 8432 and, I'm sure, any recent burner does a calibration of the blank cdr in a test area of the cdr. It varies the laser power and possibly speed on a test burn then looks for errors. Based on this, it makes the burn at the best speed the test indicates.

Its just some of the magic that still awes me and why I think we are all having mostly good luck with any blank we throw in the cdrw.

What may get to be more important than reliable burning, and I don't know yet is, how well various cdrs can be read by, say, the player in my or my friend's car.
 
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Neckbone

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Staples B&M has 80 min 16x certified cdrs in a 50pk spindle for $15.00 with a $10.00 mir.
 
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LumMoose

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Finally got over to CompUSA today, sorted through the dozens of 50-packs they had.....in a rainbow of Dye colors....dark blue, green, light green, light blue, even less green, etc, etc.....picked up a couple light blue packs....

ATIP: 97m 27s 28f
Disc Manufacturer: Princo Co.
Assumed Dye type: Phthalocyanine (Type 8)
Media type: CD-Recordable
Recording Speeds: min. unknown - max. unknown
nominal Capacity: 657.42MB (74m 50s 01f / LBA: 336601)


I'm happy. :)


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LumMoose
 
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polotek147

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Do u know if those cdrs at Staples are any good. I am referring to the spindle of 50 certified 16x cds.
 
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wiseguy

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-DesignDawg,

Thanks for the info on the CDRs. I use a Sharpie to label my CDs and
was worried I'd have trouble if I wrote on these since there is no
"labelling area".

I was going to experiment and see if writing on them screwed them up, but now I don't need to.

Thanks much...
 
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