Good CD's - Really!!!! (Traxdata CD Media)

Name: rob_writer

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Product:	Traxdata CD Media
Date:	29/05/01 (664 review reads)
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Advantages: They work for me

Disadvantages: May not for you

Most people seem to think that Traxdata CD's are rubbish. If people are moaning about them not working then it's that they take too long to recognise in a CD player. Personally I think they're fine, although I seem to have a lot less trouble with my CD's than most other people.

Traxdata have a lot of different CD's on offer, but most people will be familiar with either the 74 or 80 minute CD-R's. They do come in silver and gold varieties but I have only ever used their gold discs. I'm sure someone knows about all the colours but to be honest I have never noticed any difference whether the CD be gold, silver, blue or green.

Whatever you may say about Traxdata CD's, they do pass my quality test (which I must copyright). What you do is bend the CD. Depending on the thickness (and therefore quality of the CD) one of two things can occur. Either the CD will bend but stay in one piece, or the CD will violently shatter (NOTE - Should you try this test be careful about shattering CD's. Do them behind something or in a bag so they can't hit you). Anyway, the Traxdata CD's shatter very early in the bending process, meaning they are good quality in my books. If you don't believe me om the whole thickness/quality thing then compare some CD albums with CD singles. You'll see what I mean!!

Price wise they are good, being some of the cheapest branded CD's available. My local town lives in the dark ages and still charges about 80p per CD, but if you buy in bulk you should get 10 for about £5 or 100 for £40. That works out not a lot more than some unbranded CD's I bought (100 for £33). Of course, unbranded CD's are often very good, so are Traxdata CD's worth the extra money?

One of the first things up on my list is the jewel case that comes with CD's. Spindles may be fine, until you want to move your CD's around (ie. play them in the car, give them to friends) so I am of
the belief that you need a jewel case with your CD's. The problem is that the unbranded CD's I bought had cases which were of suspect quality. They cracked if you so much as looked at them, and the amount of cases which failed to open and close correctly was enormous. Traxdata's jewel cases are a lot better. They still aren't top quality by any means, but are a lot sturdier and aren't too hard to take to bits should you want to insert a cover at the back. You would think that making the back of the case easy to access would be pretty sensible, but on some CD's I literally have to take a knife to it!!

Of course, a dud CD is no use whether the box is good or not, but fortunately in my experience Traxdata CD's have been reliable. I must have had around 20 Traxdata CD's since I got my CD writer and although I admit I had two duds these were due to me thinking it was fine to set a CD writing and then start a game of Quake 3. Once I realised it was best to leave the PC alone I increased the success rate to almost 100%. I have used both 74 and 80 minute CD-R's and CD-RW's and found them all to be good. I have used them for just about everything possible (well, data and audio...what else is there??) and they have performed as well as any other brand of CD I have used.

Traxdata CD-R's have always worked well in audio CD players, unlike some other brands, although on some makes on CD players it takes a little longer than normal to read the CD.

I would also like to stress that this is all just what has happened to me. Lots of people hate Traxdata so it's unlikely that it's all just a coincidence. More likely is that for some strange reason my combination of CD-Writer (4x HP), recording software (Nero) and the Traxdata work well together (On the other hand, those damned Medion CD-R's crash the whole computer if I try to use them at 4x).

There is a whole range of different types of CD&
#39;s available from Traxdata, including specialist audio CD's and fun coloured CD's. What you can buy depends on what your local store stocks, but for the full range try www.traxdata.com.

I like them, but in the end I went and bought unbranded ones anyway just to save me a few pennies. On the other hand I would recommend them to you, but considering the problems other people can have then maybe it would pay to buy a couple of single ones first to make sure they work Ok, before splashing out on a bigger box.

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