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I had to switch brands after Israeli stores stopped selling BenQ CD-Rs.I've tried several brands, and have eventually settled on Maxwell for it's reliability - in extensive use for backup and to pass photos to family members & print shops I had very few failures either to burn CD-Rs or read data back.There are slightly cheaper brands, but their quality does not justify the monetary saving.
I've never had an issue with Maxell; they are the primo brand. Hey, they're CD's. For the most part they're a commodity item, but I have had some problems with el cheapo brands in the past.
I have used these as data discs and discs to record audio. Don't store these discs, burnt or blank, in rooms that become very hot; this causes damage to any brand of this type of disc and you could lose data over time. Moreover, these blank CD-Rs are capable of recording data at high speeds. After your burn data or music onto them, I would recommend storing them in slim jewel cases instead of paper sleeves. I went shopping recently at a local store that sells computer hardware and the like; and I picked up my third helping of these great CD-Rs by Maxell.
If you need to label the discs, label its jewel case using a post-it note. The ink can seep through the top coating of the CD-R disc and slowly but surely compromise your data--and you wouldn't want that, now would you. It's just better protection for your CD-Rs that have anything stored on them. In addition, DON'T write on these using Sharpie ink pens. The CD-R discs are compact and easy to store. I am not a professional so I cannot be certain of precisely what causes this phenomenon; but I assure you that the extra minute or two (tops) that you wait to get your CD-R completed is worth the wait. Great. This can happen if your burner doesn't have the capacity to burn faster, or it may be a quirk.
Maxell makes a very reliable blank CD-R that can handle up to 80 minutes of music or 700 megabytes of data. There are two caveats that many other people note about any brand of this product: when you are burning the data onto the blank disc, don't be surprised if you see that the data is burning at a rate slower than the packaging advertises. Overall, Maxell blank CD-R discs store data very reliably and I believe that an extra minute or so to burn the data onto the blank disc is well worth it just in case it doesn't actually burn at the very highest speed advertised. I almost never got a coaster. While the discs are still blank, store them in the circular case on the spindle that they came in.
Buying the CDs by the 100-count is the only way to go. Both Lappy and Lappy Junior would forecefully spit out all other CDs with great disdain and disgust. Every morning that Lappy Junior springs to life is a miracle of grace and I recognize that as a true fact. The Maxell CD-R 700/80 are the ONLY disks that the Lappys love.
Yes, my laptop has a name: "Lappy". A nice extra touch is that there's no shipping on these CDs (if you have Amazon.com Prime) and the price here is $9 less than competing brick and mortar (or steel and plastic) office warehouse stores. So I go through a lot of disks, backing up each day's work. Well, that was my first laptop.
As a professional writer, and as the sister of a comp-sci professor, I don't go to bed without backing up my work. The 100-count of CDs that I ordered were sitting in my office 36 hours after I placed the order at amazon.com. My current laptop is affectionately known as Lappy Junior. I personally spent at least $3.2 million trying to find a CD that Lappys I & II would accept.
Hugh Miles Hi amazon:This was a very good deal in all aspects of quaulity and time delivered.Thank you for a job well done.
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