Sweet computer controlled cd organizer
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but only 75 discs/tower. i saw a 100 for about 100 at fry's last year (not a tower, a circular one) with no cd cataloging system, but you can use other cd catalogging software.
considering i have about 8 or 9 folders of 224s, i guess this wouldn't be very cost effective for me.
considering i have about 8 or 9 folders of 224s, i guess this wouldn't be very cost effective for me.
Well, I had to get one at Buy.com - $113 no shipping cost after using coupon. This looks cool. 75 should work for a while. Thanks for the post!
Saw this KDS unit at CompUSA last year for $99. Almost bought it. Didn't really have a need for it. Anyone have one? How is it working.
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Okay, I found the one with 150 disks for about the same price. It is cheap looking and does not have a slot for each disk, but it is twice the capacity for the same price. No mention of the software, but it says that you need a CD-ROM and 16MB of disk space to install the sucker, so, there must be some software included!
Okay, I found the one with 150 disks for about the same price. It is cheap looking and does not have a slot for each disk, but it is twice the capacity for the same price. No mention of the software, but it says that you need a CD-ROM and 16MB of disk space to install the sucker, so, there must be some software included!
This is really cool and would be more effective than wallets, but I have around 500 cd-rs so this would get kind of pricey, and I imagine would take up a lot of real estate.
"Each unit can store up to 150 DVD/CD-R/CDs with a maximum of 19,050 of them when 127 units are linked by computer USB hubs."
LOL
I think this would be better if it actually incorporated a CD / DVD drive and could load the discs. The way it works now, you select the disc and have to manually remove it from the tray and put it in your drive. Costs too much when a shelf or CD wallet can work just as quickly.
yes, you do have software to install. Basically, you put a CD in your CD drive, it reads it, decides where to put it, and then causes that tray to open up on the device. When you need that cd again, you go into the software, tell it the one you want, and then it opens up that tray on the device so that you can get the CD from the device and put it into your computer.
I'm sure its interesting to some, but I would much rather have a real CD changer that could actually access the drive.
If the thing was a massive CD changer it would be about twice as big and it would cost 4 or 5 times as much. That would be a RMA waiting to happen because there would be so many things to break.
My CD/DVD collection is topping out at around 400 now. I've found the historical bubble-sort method to work really well for me. The stuff I use the most is always at the top. 
Originally posted by: Qtip
My CD/DVD collection is topping out at around 400 now. I've found the historical bubble-sort method to work really well for me. The stuff I use the most is always at the top.
I think we are talking about a hash-table kinda cd tower here.
I sold a standalone "data jukebox" like what you're describing about a year and a half ago to one of our customers. If I remember correctly, they paid about $8,500 for a 100 disc capacity.
Kind of a big difference in price, no?
QnD
We have this sort of this for audio (redbook) CDs Sony ES Megachanger which can be computer-controlled using SLINK-E
Don't know of a data equivalent
Don't know of a data equivalent
my dad was telling me he got a few of these for his office. He has two of the 150 models, and he said that its not just storage, but, I think you can also do searches for specific files and the like. once found, you can basically just have the unit spit out the correct CD that the file is located on.
how well do they move?
ie, if i want to move the unit, say across the room, or to another town... do the cds fall out O_O
ie, if i want to move the unit, say across the room, or to another town... do the cds fall out O_O
This changer was widely available for around $100 before Christmas. Heck, Microcenter had them for that price, as well as some of the on-line guyz. Not at all a hot deal if it's now $128. Especially since, from what I remember reading when I looked into them, this thing has a tendency to break pretty quickly. (Loading mechanism is cheap plastic).
Kwad
Kwad
If you want a data jukebox it's very simple:
1) Take $150 (or less) and buy yourself the biggest damn harddrive you can find for that money. 5400 would be find.
2) Install it in your computer or an external enclosure (USB2/Firewire)
3) Rip all your CDs down to image files and load them onto this harddrive.
4) Go to Daemon Tools and download.
5) Now, when you want to access one of your CDs, simply use Daemon Tools. As automatic as it gets, and cheaper than any plastic caddy system. Considering most CDs don't use the full 700MB capacity, you could store possible as many as 300 CDs on a 100GB HD.
6) Put all those nasty old CDs in a box under your bed.
1) Take $150 (or less) and buy yourself the biggest damn harddrive you can find for that money. 5400 would be find.
2) Install it in your computer or an external enclosure (USB2/Firewire)
3) Rip all your CDs down to image files and load them onto this harddrive.
4) Go to Daemon Tools and download.
5) Now, when you want to access one of your CDs, simply use Daemon Tools. As automatic as it gets, and cheaper than any plastic caddy system. Considering most CDs don't use the full 700MB capacity, you could store possible as many as 300 CDs on a 100GB HD.
6) Put all those nasty old CDs in a box under your bed.
Same here. I don't even use the books anymore. I just have 13 100cd spindles, with a general inkling of what movies are stored in what spindle. What we really need is towers that can store 1000+ cds. That would be handy.
Something about pulling 900 cd's off a spindle to get one at the bottom doesn't sound appealing!
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