Has anyone tried 99-Minute CDR's?

[Logix]

I saw a pack of these at CompUSA yesterday. They were packaged under the CompUSA brand, and supposedly hold 99 minutes/870MB. I forget the price.

Has anyone tried these out? Do they really hold that much data? Do I need a special burner or reader to use such discs?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jugernot]

Never uses em myself, but they do require a drive that is capable of writing to them. Some newer drives are capable, but I would check to make sure before you buy em. Also most CD drives won't read em, so that limits their usefulness too.

 

[techweenie]

I would be careful too, I bought 2 spindles of CompUSA cd-r's and they sucked. I had asked the kid working there if they were good, and said that he used them all the time. I've burnt all coasters, even trying to use the different spindles.

 

[madthumbs]

They're only compatable with certain drives, and for that matter I haven't heard of a drive that can actually use all the space on them. The last time I checked was before 24x drives came out... but the best 16x's could only use up to 89 minutes on them.