What are good CD-R and CD-RW media brands (12x10x)?

[GroundOO]

I just got me a Creative 12x10x32x CD-RW drive for Xmas, (asked for a Plextor, parents are afraid of the internet and spend $50 more than they had to, oh well,) what's the best of the best and what is the best price/quality deal I can get?

 

[billandopus]

There have been many threads dealing with hot cdr/w buys on the Hot Deals Forum. Have a boo.

Search for the Taiyo Yuden TDK 100pk spindle thread especially.

Good manufacturers of cdrs include Kodak, Mitsui, Taiyo Yuden IMO. If you can find cdrs from these guys for cheap then go for it. Cheap cdr makers include Ritek, CMC Magnetics, GigaStorage among others. I'd save them for inconsequential music cds.

As for rw's I know that Verbatim and Yamaha source their rw's from a Malaysian or Singaporean mfg. They seem to work fine.

 

[GroundOO]

bump (any more info?)

 

[divinemartyr]

I would check out some sites which analyze the dyes in different CD-R's. Color is not a factor, however, the dye used is a factor as far as shelf life is concerned.

I'm sticking with bill_n_opus on this one, Taiyo Yuden and Kodak are some of the best CD-R's available. You will pay a little bit more but they have a shelf life of 200+ years and will outlive both of us combined, if you take care of them. =)

divinemartyr

 

[BurnItDwn]

I prefer EL CHEAPO GENERIC brand ... its my favorite .. 100 of em for like 20 bucks ... i've never had a problem with anything i have burned ... except for one cd that was scratched about a year ago ... i had to toss it ... but of the 500 or so discs ive burned in the past few years ... never have i had a problem with specific media .. In college my roomate had some problems with Memmorex Media ... he had burned it at 4x and the media was certified at 4x ... but the discs would only let you recover about 1/2 of the data. when i burned it on my 4x cdr (which was SCSI)... it all would read ok ... it was weird

 

[GroundOO]

cool, i got a sweeet deal on a 100pk box of TDKs These good?



Here's the money savin' luvin'

I went to Buy.com, chose the 100pk of TDK 12x (650MB 74min) for $39.99.

www.tchbrgains.com had a list of coupons from which I chose a $10 of $40 purchase.

Turns out that 39.99 isn't 40$ so i buy a 29cent black marker (hahahha! rotflmao) I think that was the cheapest thing on the whole site!

so Thats $30 there, AND the 100pk comes with a $20 mail in rebate too! niiice



This is how I'm spendin' my $100 I got from my grandparents (The other $70 goes to 128Mb stick of Mushkin HSDRAM)

Am I not a bargain hunter? Well, end of that... gotta go.

 

[GroundOO]

damn, dp

 

[John]

I bought a 50pk of Ricoh Platinum 12x CDR's for 36.00, and I went ahead and picked up a 50pk spindle of Imation 12x's from Outpost.com for 24.00 and they had a 10.00 rebate.

 

[Guilty]

I've never had any problems with Imations either. Memorex is good but more expensive.
Onvia has the 50pk Imations for $19.99 shipped and 100pk for $39.99 shipped, decent in my opinion.

 

[duragezic]

I always get Imations from now on. I had bought a 50pk of Kingston's for $15 with free shipping but those things suck. They are 8x rated and I tried burning them at 8x on my Plextor 8x4x32 but they usually don't play in any cd player, especially car cd player. Even at 4x most of the audio cds I burned suck and I ended up throwing them out the window. Data at 4x was ok but to burn audio I would drop it down to 2x. Enough of that.

I bought a 50pk of Imations for $28-$10 mail-in rebate and free shipping. Never had any problems at all burning at 8x.

 

[UKspace]

I have never had any problems with TDK

 

[gittyup]

I got the kingston hypermedia 8x(650MB) pack of 50 for $9.95. They also have the 12x(700MB)pack of 50 for $12.95 at outpost. Had no problems burning....

 

[LXi]

Memorex Platinum, TEAC, Kodak are my favorites.

 

[Doomguy]

The kingston 12x cdrs from outpost work great for me on my TDK 12x10x32. I use them for DC backups, PSX backups and computer games with no problem. I'll never use expensive cds unless I'm burning something ery importint.