Did I miss something? No more RW's?

[Double Trouble]

I haven't purchased CDR's and CDRW's in a while, and now I need to get a few. I started looking around, and it seems like there are very few places that even sell RW's anymore. Most of the B&M's don't even stock them anymore, certainly not the 50 or 100 pack spindles.

Now I know CDR's are so cheap that you could simply use and discard them, but what if you have an application where you have to copy some stuff over to CDR's every day or multiple times per day??

Anyone know where I can get some decently priced 8x CDRW's in spindle sizes?? They're hard to find even on egay now. Did I miss something?

 

[Double Trouble]

Bump.

Nobody knows what happened to the market for RW's? Why have they all vanished off the shelves?

 

[Bignate603]

i got a single one with my burner, haven't looked for them since. I use it to test if something will burn or not

 

[dennilfloss]

Hehe. I walk 400' to my mom & pop shop and he has lots of them on display. Ditto for Electronic Boutique. Have you tried looking at a real store lately?

Only You (Yaz)

 

[Fingers]

best buy always seem to have them, just not the really big packs.

 

[Double Trouble]

I can get them in little wimpy 5 packs or 10 packs, but they're way too expensive that way. Whatever happened to the nice 50 packs for $25?? And why with all the new burners capable of burning at 8x and 10x now, how come no RW's capable of that speed?

 

[Zucchini]

frys has spindles of the things for decent prices, not much more then a cd-r spindle.

 

[dennilfloss]

Why do you need so much? I only have 3 rewritables and a lot more recordables. The three rewritable are enough to rotate backups of stuff that I want to save only temporarily. Surely 10 would do.

Time (Pink Floyd)

 

[gittyup]

How about these?

How about these?

 

[Double Trouble]

Zuccini: No frys around here

Thanks for the links Gittyup, I'll check that out.

Dennis: Long story, but I need them in stacks of at least 50

 

[Passions]

How do u use the rw feature anyway, hehe I never even tried it yet.

 

[Valhalla1]

yeah, my friend has like 200 Divx rip movies on his harddrives, and he found that if he encodes them to Mpeg layer 1 VCD and burns them to CD-RW, the home entertainment DVD player will play them on the big screen and surround sound.. but only cd rw's worked, CD-rs for some reason didnt

 

[TravisBickle]

if you want to pirate stuff use CDR
if you want data on disc then use CDRW

 

[CQuinn]

As Valhalla1 said, some DVD players will read VCD on CDRWs where they won't read
on CD-Rs. Has something to do with the reflective layer used.
I don't pirate, but I do some amatuer video editing/playback, and its nice to
think I can save my work in a form that my roomates DVD player can read back.

CDRW's are great for backups, but also great for intermediate term storage.
Stuff that you don't want on CD permanently yet (may still be organizing it)
but you want to free up space on the HD.

 

[T2T III]

<< Dennis: Long story, but I need them in stacks of at least 50 >>


Do you have a rotational WAREZ collection?

Seriously, I'm able to find R/W discs in lots of the local stores. However, they are not fast discs though. Mostly 4x discs. Some write at faster speeds and others don't.

 

[konichiwa]

Valhalla

Oooh, that sounds interesting. What type of burning program/CDRs/DVD player does he have?

tagej

Outpost.com -- the only 50pk spindle I saw on first glance was a Kingston for like $15, but it was only 2x.