An amazing thing just happened @ Office Depot

[toekramp]

I just paid more money for a 50 pack of CD-r's than 50 DVD+r's...


50 Memorex 52x CD-r - 19.99
50 Memorex 8x DVD+r - 18.99


awesome!

 

[Ornery]

How many years were you hoping they will last?

I pay the big bucks for mine!

 

[BillGates]

Just so you know, they have a deal going right now for Philips 50 disc spindles of CDRs. Buy one at $12.99, get one free.

 

[neutralizer]

I remember when there used to be so many free CDr deals.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Just so you know, they have a deal going right now for Philips 50 disc spindles of CDRs. Buy one at $12.99, get one free.

i like all my cd-rs/dvd+rs to be the same brand 🙂

 

[Cobalt]

Not to long ago I bought a 50 pack of Walgreens CD-Rs for 4.99. No complaints here, they work fine. 😛

 

[Ornery]

CD-R Quality vs CD-R Compatibility

• Most people think that when they have burned up a spindle and did not get any coaster that the quality of these CD-R's was very good. In fact this is NOT true as this only tells you that the used CD-R's are compatible with your CD-Writer.
  Over the years most CD-Writer manufacturers have learned how to make their hardware compatibility with all kinds of CD-R's (even the low budget media!) so it is not strange that less coasters occure.
  
  So keep in mind that nobody can claim that a certain CD-R is of good quality just by successfully burning a number of CD-R's!

 

[z0mb13]

werent they dirt cheap a couple of years ago??

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
I remember when there used to be so many free CDr deals.

I also remember when they were ten bucks apiece.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

You paid $20 for crappy Taiwanese CD-R's? You're an idiot.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Yeah...
Dude you got ripped pretty bad. I pay 20 bucks for 100 cheapo CD-Rs. (no, I don't care. I don't keep them very long. Anything I know I want for a long time, like 3+ years, Istore on Magnetic media)

 

[Ornery]

What do you use to store data for 10 or 20 years?

 

[FoBoT]

i haven't bought a dvd burner yet 🙁
maybe in july

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Ornery
CD-R Quality vs CD-R Compatibility

• Most people think that when they have burned up a spindle and did not get any coaster that the quality of these CD-R's was very good. In fact this is NOT true as this only tells you that the used CD-R's are compatible with your CD-Writer.
  Over the years most CD-Writer manufacturers have learned how to make their hardware compatibility with all kinds of CD-R's (even the low budget media!) so it is not strange that less coasters occure.
  
  So keep in mind that nobody can claim that a certain CD-R is of good quality just by successfully burning a number of CD-R's!

This is very true. I had a bad batch of cheap spindles, that would burn ok, but it produced cyclic redundancy errors (dont know what the hell it is) when I try to copy the data back to the drive.

 

[FleshLight]

Back in the day I got 100 48x Imation cdrs and 100 plastic jewel cases for $10.

 

[W13]

I get them at something like 5-15 Cents per CD-R at Fry's Electronics.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: Ornery
How many years were you hoping they will last?

I pay the big bucks for mine!

I just go to BB when they have their 50pk of Fujis or TDK that are MIJ w/ TY for $20 🙂

 

[imported_Hi]

yes your are dumb

i bought a pack of 100 sony cd-r disks for 20 bucks at staples

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: AkumaX

Originally posted by: Ornery
How many years were you hoping they will last?

I pay the big bucks for mine!

I just go to BB when they have their 50pk of Fujis or TDK that are MIJ w/ TY for $20 🙂

That's virtually the same price, but you don't have to buy so many. What does the media profile say?

• Current Profile: DVD+R
  
  Disc Information:
  Status: Empty
  Erasable: No
  Free Sectors: 2,295,104
  Free Space: 4,700,372,992 bytes
  Free Time: 510:03:29 (MM:SS:FF)
  Supported Write Speeds: 2.4x, 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16x
  
  Physical Format Information (ADIP):
  Disc ID: YUDEN000-T02-00
  Book Type: DVD+R
  Part Version: 1

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i haven't bought a dvd burner yet 🙁
maybe in july

me either, my next paycheck is going to have to go to another HDD, headphones, and gas 🙁 I really need to back up this stuff but man, I'd have to use a whole spindle of 100 CD-Rs.

 

[Ornery]

Sheesh, OfficeMax had some last week for $39.00. I kinda doubt they'll get much cheaper!

 

[mwtgg]

Wow, you just got ripped off.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah.. anyone who doesn't have a DVD drive in this day and age.. get with the program! Even the cheapest laptops include built-in DVD burners. 😛

Trust me, I put off getting a DVD burner, for much longer than I should have. Sooo useful for making Ghost backups of my HDs. 2 DVDs and then some, instead of a stack of ~14 CDRs.