[lug] Do CD-RWs suck?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:47:58PM -0600, Mike Stanczyk wrote:
>Ok, I'll ask, how do you identify the Taiho Yuden disks?

You search on froogle for "taiyo yuden CD-RW" or similar.  ;-)

>I mean, when you're holding a shrink wraped package of 50+ cheap disks
>can you tell if they're Taiho Yuden?

Ah, that's easy.  If they're a shrink wrapped package of 50+ cheap discs,
they aren't Taiyo Yuden.  ;-)  As I said, I ended up paying about 2x more
for them than the other discs I had picked up.  Prices have come down quite
a bit since then, then it was around $0.45 each, with the other discs being
just over $0.20.  Now we're paying $0.28 each for CD-Rs.  This is in large
quantity though.  I'm not really sure how that compares with other CDs
these days.

The only way I know of that you can tell is to pop one of the CDs into your
drive and start up cdrecord on it -- it'll tell you what the manufacturer
is.

Thanks,
Sean
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