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01-21-2005, 02:40 PM
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#1 | | I'm freaking out
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Open the can you twit
Posts: 62
 | CD-RW's?
Buy the cheapest, or does anyone recommend a specific brand?
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01-21-2005, 03:23 PM
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#2 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Washington, DC Area
Posts: 656
| Depends on what you're going to do with them. If you can risk one (or more) failing, then cheaper might be fine. But if this is your one backup copy of photos of your kid... might not want to chance it.
My rule with CDRs and CDRWs is: get a load of free ones (CDRs are easy to find for free) for doing tests and for non-critical stuff (like a mix CD). Then, for the important stuff, buy a brand I've heard of. Some big companies sell junk, but in general, the well known companies produce acceptable stuff. | |
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01-21-2005, 05:35 PM
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#3 | | nothing to hide
Join Date: May 2003 Location: skyline of numbers
Posts: 1,290
| TDK has never sold me a coaster before, but just recently I bought a 5-pack of Memorex and they were all bad. Your mileage may vary.
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01-22-2005, 12:06 AM
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#4 | | Barbarian Artist
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Barbarianville
Posts: 3,079
| Same here for TDK, they've always worked for me.
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01-22-2005, 08:35 PM
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#5 | | *** The Angel Defends ***
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Trans-dimensional Limbo
Posts: 512
| I prefer the MoserBaer Cds - never used RW but the R actually work great - I always buy them in bulk so its a lot cheaper ...  .. I recently bought a pack of SONY CD-R - I wont be buying them ever - they had problems - everytime I tried to write them, I got a power caliburation error (I was using Nero) ... even though my CD-drive does have its issues, I never had a problem with MoserBaer ... I bought an external CD RW drive (ASUS) ... even that has problems with a SONY ... I really dont recomend that
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01-24-2005, 01:22 AM
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#6 | | Video Master Silver Contributor
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Eugene, OR USA
Posts: 582
| Ritek is a very good, but lesser known brand. Check out http://www.meritline.com
Ordered $100's from them with no problems
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01-24-2005, 11:16 AM
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#7 | | Advance Wars = Crack
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: your mom
Posts: 1,895
| That's wierd. I've never had a problem w/ my Memorex CD-RWs, but then again, I only burn @ 2x.
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01-25-2005, 06:59 AM
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#8 | | Registered User Bronze Contributor
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: New York, NY
Posts: 1,379
| When I was on tour I needed to burn some CD-Rs frequently for my show and when I started to run out we were in the middle of nowhere and Staples was the only place we could get them. I bought some Staples brand CDs, which isn't exactly a name I think of for quality audio, and sure enough the first time I used one we popped it in the drive at the sound board and it wouldn't read it, so we had to wait while I burned another copy on a different brand of disc (Memorex was what I mostly used, IIRC). I don't know how crappy the Staples discs really were, but that first experience taught me a lesson to get good quality discs for things that need to always work right the first time. | |
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