SCSI CD drive capable of reading CD-R

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Sun Apr 17 17:22:33 CDT 2005


Phil wrote:
> Watch out though - the "Datalife" CDRs are cheap crap - rebranded CMC
> Magnetics floor-scrapings.

Floor scrapings are the only kind CMC Magnetics makes.  TDK CD-Rs used
to be Taiyo-Yuden, which is the best.  I routinely bought them at Costco.
One day I had a spindle of which nearly 50% of the discs were bad, and
checking the ATIP data, they were CMC Magnetics.  I've never bought
TDK CD-R media since.  I can only guess that some bean counter at TDK
refused to pay for T-Y when CMCM is so much cheaper.  Possibly TDK has
switched to something else by now, but I'll never find out first-hand.

Eric



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