Blank 700MB CD-R Hunt!

harriko

well i would like to find the cheapest blank 700mb memory around! so far my cheapest i found is 100cds for £10 thats 10p per cd from amazon. no p&p and things like that! can anyone beat this! i would like to know. thanks!

8383

Amazon is where I order mine from. Two boxes have just arrived this morning!

comdw

SVP (https://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk) have "TuffDisc" 50 CD-Rs (700mb) for £3.65 inc VAT, excluding delivery.

Delivery is £2.99 unless you go over 13 of these, so if you were to buy 10 (500 discs) it would cost £40 or 8p per disc delivered.

That says nothing about the quality of the discs however, but thats an entirely different hunt...

1jim

do you have a link for those on amazon?
thanks
just being lazy really

harriko

comdw wrote:

SVP (https://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk) have "TuffDisc" 50 CD-Rs (700mb) for £3.65 inc VAT, excluding delivery.

Delivery is £2.99 unless you go over 13 of these, so if you were to buy 10 (500 discs) it would cost £40 or 8p per disc delivered.

That says nothing about the quality of the discs however, but thats an entirely different hunt...

seems like a lifetimes worth of cds. come to think about it, your using more money to have a bargin... thanks! anymore?

TeamMCS

Oh *interested too*

vernall

yeah,a link for the amazon ones would be cool please

DIRK_GENTLY

BENQ AT AMAZON

raeble

If you sign up to the SVP buyers club they will email you when they have discounts and 99p postage.

d.ylan

with regards to the OP question, im my opinion this is NOT a good course of action to be following. You can get uber cheap media, such as bulkpaq et al, but I personally find the finishes on these and the overall quality of disc to be very short term.

I would not use one of the cheapest discs for anything except short term storage. Out of about 500 discs we recently went through from 12-18 months ago, over 100 of the finished had bubbled and flaked leaving the disc unreadable, after being correctly stored in suitable packaging out of sunlight.

I also find that the mechanisms from slot loading drives tend to flake the finish of these cheaper disc, including the printable ones.

My personal choice is datasafe (the additional protective layer one, not sure if they still sell this), memorex, and verbatim if you want any kind of long term archive life for your data. Memorex is probably the best value, but you maybe looking at a few pence more per discs, its worth bearing in mind though, choosing the disc that suits the lifespan of your needs.

moomintroll_3

DIRK_GENTLY wrote:

BENQ AT AMAZON

Just be aware - I got a 100 cake of the Benq CD's from Amazon some time ago. Getting around to using them now and they are around 70% useless(i.e., I reckon I'll only get about 30 good ones out of the 100 - the rest are coasters). Unless someone can persuade me that this was just a bad batch I won't be buying them again...

G