Which CD-R/CD-RW's are best?

[TMSKILZ]

I am a proud new owner of a LiteOn 52x24x52 CD Burner & wanted to know which CD-R/RW's Disc brand do you guys suggest is best & I use?
I want to buy some this week, but have no idea which brands are good to use, any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

 

[4Ryan6]

The main target for you is burn rate, since you can burn at 52x look for the highest burn rate CDRs you can find, that will narrow the field considerably for you, and I don't even use CDRWs they take too much time to format and prepare, I just get bulk packs of CDRs like 50s or 100packs.




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[elzt]

Yeah... and CDRs are very cheap compared to CDRWs.

 

[lagger]

I highly recommend Tiayo Yuden 48x cdrs you can find them sold as Fuji disks commonly in the states

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[orbz]

Yah, those TY discs are good quality discs. Also look for ones that are "Made in Japan".

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[TMSKILZ]

Thanks to everyone who posted.

 

[TMSKILZ]

Just picked up a 50 pack of Fujifilm 48x, 80 min/700MB CD-R.
Was this a good pick up?
Are these brand of CD-R's good?

 

[lagger]

THEY BE THE ONES YA' WANT

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[phsstpok]

Lite-ons are very good with media but test any inexpensive stuff you might buy. Make sure they reach full speed during writing, make sure the read back OK, in multiple drives, and that the read speed doesn't drop off. Test the discs for read errors.

Don't use discs that give you any of those problems.

Most people find TY manufactured discs work great. These discs used to have the tell-take spin cap on top of the "cake box". Useful to know when you are looking for bargains. Not sure they still use the spin cap, though.

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[AndrewT]

I use nameless bulk silver cdr's that supposed to be 32x and writing them at 48x no problems

bad experience only with Colorful cdr's, they sell under many names (like MaxMax) but you you can read Colorful on the discs. they never ever burn at the speed they marked at, 12x max 10x, 40x max 32x...

gave up on brand names a long time ago, why bother when no name work just as well for me

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[TMSKILZ]

Ok, so I'm assuming the Fuji CD-R's were a good pickup.
I want to pickup some CD-RW's as well, can you guys help me out as to which brand to get?
Also what's the highest speed one can pick a CD-RW at?
CD-R's the highest speed I could find was @ 48x, what about CD-RW'S?
thanks again guys.

 

[orbz]

Yes, the Fuji's are a good pickup. As for CD-RW's I think the highest speed I've seen is 24x.

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[TMSKILZ]

Thanks Orbz.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Fast CD-RW's are very thin on the ground... the best ive seen are Verbatim 16x and 24x certified 650Mb disks... sold individually for exorbident prices. really not worth it. better just gettin a spindle of high speed CD-R's.

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