Cheap Basic CD (Tesco CD-R 700MB 52x)

Member Name: kamal

Product:	Tesco CD-R 700MB 52x
Date:	16/09/08 (189 review reads)
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Advantages: Very cheap, Good looking, Does most of the job OK

Disadvantages: Build quality not very good, makes laptop drive vibrate

I still remember the old days when a single CD from Sony or TDK used to cost around £1 and they used to come in individual CD case. But now you can buy loads of them in a towering stack called 'spindle', and they come cheaper than match-sticks !!

I bouth 25 pack CD from Tesco last year. It was nice small spindle package and CDs were nice silver matt finish with Tesco's name written on it. I have bought cheap CDs from the internet websites, but they come in ugly Red / Purple colors.. But this CDs were better lookwise.

As they are cheap and basic, I did not expect anything extra ordinary out of it. I just wanted to burn some audio CD to play in the car audio, and also use it as temporary media to send photos to my parents. I would not use it to backup photos permanently as it is very easy to get scratches on this, making it unreadable.

Only irritating bit was when I created Ubuntu Linux Live CD on this. May be something is not EVEN about this CD, so it spins frantically in my laptop drive, making my laptop vibrate a lot. This doesn't happen with other Sony or good branded CDs.

But as I said, I was happy with its basic functions and I bought the same 25-pack couple of times from Tesco.

Summary: Good value for money

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