Wish I'd bought one of those years ago - it would have paid for itself by
now. I'm working through an order for 94 discs this week on one burner.
Te-De-Us!
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Optical Disks for Archiving
The only CDs I burn in large quantities anymore are data discs, MP3 audio
and PDF powerpoints from my company's conferences. I burn a total of about
350 discs per year, using a 1x7 duper tower, caching the CD image to an
internal hard drive. We've always had 100% success with T-Y but as prices
went up, I started experimenting to see which cheaper kind would work well
(near or full 100% burn-and-verify success). The cheapo green-dye kind from
American Media works fine, as does Sony-branded discs that often are on sale
for well south of 20 cents each at Staples. Last time Sony was on sale, I
bought 500 and now they're nearly gone. 100% success rate with them so far.
We've never had a CD returned as defective EXCEPT the time I got distracted
and stuck a few blanks into the completed pile! We've used stick-on labels
with the CD Stamper for years, and despite rumors of problems we've never
heard a complaint. I do think data CDs are different than audio. If someone
wants to use the files on a data CD over and over, they'll move them to
their hard drive. So the disc doesn't get used over and over like a music
CD.
The other thing that has impressed me is the quality of the LG burner drives
in our CD tower. We've used this tower for at least 5 years now, probably
more like 10. We've burned thousands of discs in it by now. Not one
mechanical or electrical problem so far. Superb investment considering the
money we've saved doing our manufacturing in-house.
-- Tom Fine
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