People with 100s of CDR/CDRWs look here...

[Pakaderm]

So what do ATOT people use CDRs for mostly? Music? Movies? New Programs? Backing up stuff? Pictures? TV Shows? I've had my burner for about a year and I have yet to go through more than 100 CDRs. For you people with 100s or 1000s of CDRs, what do you put on them all?

-Pak

 

[Burnt]

divx movies

 

[tallest1]

I backed up my Hard Drive onto 40CDs and I'm currently sorting out my MP3s to make multiple CDs, then I plan on backing up my appz and creating a 'recovery cd' of some sort

 

[Viper GTS]

I really don't use my burner that often, I doubt I've burned more than 100 CD's in my life either.

Pretty sad, considering I have this purdy black 24X Plextor. 650 MB in 4 minutes flat!



Viper GTS

 

[pyonir]

i have about 100 blank ones...plan on using them for music. but i just never get around to burning anything. i'll sit down one weekend and just burn like 10 cd's but that only happens once in a great while. i should make back up discs and all that, but i always sit on the internet or play games instead.

 

[Jerboy]

I stupidly stocked up on CD-R when the price was supposed to go up by three times, which never happened. Unfortunately I had over 700 in stock.

CD-R's do have shelf life in unrecorded state. I knew I wasn't going to use them all up anytime soon and I figured it would end up getting ruined so I took it to school the other day and gave away about 100 CD-R's.
Thankfully I have date of purchase label on every spindle so I can keep track of their age. I'm probably taking another 50pk spindle to school this week.

Thats what happens when you over-buy something and realize you don't need that much later

 

[Hammer]

I've burned about 500. I only keep about 150 at a time, the rest I throw away.

 

[BigJohnKC]

divx movies, mp3s, backups, a lot of audio cds for my car (no mp3 in dash yet), VCDs, etc.

I've burned probably close to 1500 CDR's in the four years I've had a burner - on my third burner now. Lost a lot of them, sold a lot, actually a good 200 of those were from my acappella group's CD back in college. A lot of data goes through my computer...

 

[SpecialEd]

I have a very intricate way of storing CDs...

its called "all over my bed room floor and under the couch and all over every table top"

 

[DaiShan]

how long is the "shelf life" and does it matter if I have it in an enclosure? oh btw I haven't burned more than 70-80 cd's either, do a lot of quicken backup to cd-rw tho

 

[Doggiedog]

I've got hundreds of CD-Rs with digital pics on them (no not those). I take so many pictures of my children that I need to back them up regularly. I nearly lost my whole picture collection on my PC to a virus and will never make the mistake of not backing up again. Whenever I get about 100-200MB of new pics I just burn a 700MB CD-R worth of pics so that I have at least a triple backup of the pictures.

 

[mrCide]

<< CD-R's do have shelf life in unrecorded state. >>



Why do I highly doubt this? Where did you get this information?

 

[Anubis]

I use them for everythig. backed up my HD 20 CDS like 100 DivX movies and tons of Appz. and im always making a new Music CD of some sort. its sad i havent paied for anything music or softwhere in like 2 years

 

[Jerboy]

<<

<< CD-R's do have shelf life in unrecorded state. >>



Why do I highly doubt this? Where did you get this information? >>




does this answer your question?

Few lines down from the top.

 

[mdennison]

When I first got a burner in 1999, used to burn every music cd i could get my hands on.

Now I use it for drivers/demos and have not used more than 20-30 in the past year.(probably closer to 10)

Have two hard drives, so i keep everything backed up on my extra hd...

 

[Jerboy]

I used to back up all the time, but now that my hard drives are 40GB each, it takes a whole spindle to back up one drive and lets not forget the you have to sit in front of the computer about five hours to complete the back up, swapping CD every five min

 

[DaiShan]

5-10 year shelf life in unrecorded form? if you don't burn the cd's in 5 to 10 years you don't really need a burner lol

 

[Jerboy]

<< 5-10 year shelf life in unrecorded form? if you don't burn the cd's in 5 to 10 years you don't really need a burner lol >>



Some of my disks are from 1998 or so. Just about to end its useful life, so might as well give away now rather than wait until its ruined and throw away in agony.

 

[mrCide]

oh... 5-10 years? well who cares then, we'll all have blu laser DVD-Rs by then.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Music, videos, movies, applications, games,etc.

 

[Apollyon]

Awe come on you people, admit it!
You have hundreds and hundreds of porn cds. I know you do.


I don't.

 

[Sepen]

<< So what do ATOT people use CDRs for mostly? Music? Movies? New Programs? Backing up stuff? Pictures? TV Shows? I've had my burner for about a year and I have yet to go through more than 100 CDRs. For you people with 100s or 1000s of CDRs, what do you put on them all?

-Pak >>



I have over 1000 now. I put my SVCD's on them at best quality, 3-4 cdr's for each DVD movie. I just got a DVD-R burner however, and I can backup a movie in less than one hour now. So I will be limiting my cdr purchases for a long time, well, until the 1000 are gone.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Awe come on you people, admit it!
You have hundreds and hundreds of porn cds. I know you do.


I don't. >>




I have a few, just like most of you do. I don't really need it right now. I have better thing to do than get myself off to my CRT.

 

[mrCide]

<< I have a few, just like most of you do. I don't really need it right now. I have better thing to do than get myself off to my CRT. >>



like post on atot during the day

 

[gopunk]

cds most definitely have a shelf life... that's one of the main reasons people buy quality ones like TY.

i use mine for music, and storing data when i'm reinstalling windows or something. every once in a while my parents need me to back up their software, so i do that too.