HURRY UP YOU CHEAP BASTARDS! 50-pack TY 48x 80min CDRs for $2.99 After MIR @ Best Buy

[MontyBurns]

Alan: The truth is, for most modern-day practical purposes, you could buy just about any CDR so long as your burner can write to it at maximum speed. While Taiyo Yuden discs have a reputation of "lasting forever," that doesn't mean that other CDR's don't do the same thing. We've all no doubt used lots of non-TY discs with great results.

And, really, if it's absolutely 100% important to you that your data outlive you on a CDR, then please, by all means, pay more than $3 for 50 discs.


I burn a tremendous amount of CDs, much of it for archival purposes. I've only had a couple "go bad," and there were environmental factors at work. Most of the CDs I burn are in fact Ritek's, since they seem to have become the dominant manufacturer for TDK and other major brands. I have zero problems with them. Still, I go ahead and buy TY's when I can, especially when they're the cheapest anyways.

 

[Ns1]

just fyi 1 rebate per household

 

[MontyBurns]

NeuroSynapsis: Read the thread. There is conflicting information about how many rebates per household.

 

[icantiwont]

Originally posted by: AlanS
I have Ricoh brand CD-R's that say platinum on them and says the data should last 200 years.

Yeah, are you planning to stick around for 200 years to find out?

 

[Jeomite]

Originally posted by: icantiwont

Originally posted by: AlanS
I have Ricoh brand CD-R's that say platinum on them and says the data should last 200 years.

Yeah, are you planning to stick around for 200 years to find out?

I have had CDRs that don't last a year. The ink and disc surface deteoriates rendering the disc with bad/unreadable sectors. And for you TY enthusiants, these discs were NOT TYs but mainly generic no-name discs or those cheap $5 for a 50PK spindle ones... :Q

 

[AlanS]

Yeah, are you planning to stick around for 200 years to find out?

Yes! Actually they were free after rebate. 10 pack.

I've looked around to try and find out if TY's are considered the best. My conclusion (based on what I read of others opinions) is that they are one of the better disks but not necessarily the best. Other disks seem to be rated highly as well. Alot of mentions for TDK.

Found this thread that seems to have alot of international posters, mentioning alot of brands that may not be sold here.


Thread

 

[MontyBurns]

AlanS: TDK does not make their own discs. THey primarily use TY or Ritek discs -- as does just about every other "label" out there. The companies buy up the discs from the major manufacturers and just slap their labels on them. Same thing with Fuji, they haven't made their own discs in years. Most fuji's you find today will be TY.

 

[Walleye]

I got some memorex black cdr's. I dont know how much they costed. the underside looks like that of a playstation game (why it's called black). I dont know the advantage of the black. hell, I dont even know the maximum write speed of these. they were bought a long time ago.

Memorex
Black CD-R
700 mb 80 minute

and a picture of a goblet shattering, and something asking, "is it live?"

anyone know if these are good discs? I havent had a problem with them, but then again i almost never burn discs.

 

[LordThing]

I bought the Black Memorexs for the coolness factor a long while back. They are decent CDs, but if i remember right, they only burned to 12x.

 

[circlek]

I got mine and they do say "Made in Japan"

 

[udonoogen]

why ya'lways call me a bastard