Other CD Media

You know how it is with CDRs... they're so cheap these days that they have become 'disposable'. Got a file that's too big to fit on a floppy? Just burn it to a CD. It no longer matters if the file is only 3Mb and you have 697Mb of free space left on a disc, they're just so darned cheap! And they don't come much cheaper than the Value CDRs from PC World. Weighing in at £27 for 100 discs, even I can work out that it's only 27p per disc! So what can I say about them? Well for starters, they come on a handy spindle which is fine if you are using them for 'disposable' storage, they take up a LOT less space on a spindle ...

*Sigh*, here I am again, writing about another item affiliated with my CD-RW drive. I may aswell as write about cardboard boxes, but I haven't seen any lately even; well I have but that doesn't matter. Though I was blessed with one exact drive-branded CD-RW disc with my drive, I required atleast one more for my needs and I found to my astonishment that Ricoh were the only brand selling CD-RW discs of the marked 'High Speed 4x-10x' variety, and in singular for £1.99. There's not much I can say about this disc, apart from that it it's for rewritable use (d'uh), 74mins in audio length, and 650mb in terms of data capacity. It can ...

Blank CD media - it's all the same isn't it? The idea is to see how many blanks you can get for how little cash, right? 5000 "Grade A" discs on spindle for 25p - must be a good deal? Think again mes amis. I got a CD-RW about 2 years ago and have both burned and be-buggered a good few discs since then. Many are the brands encountered along the way, and varied are the stories I could tell. How about the 50 Bush CD-Rs for £25? Perhaps every other one was ultimately useful. Or Mr. Data, another one of those brands you never quite trust, not performing terribly well. Or how about those names you remember from the days of 19p blank tapes - Sakura, ...