Home > Consumer Reviews > Memorex 700MB/80-Minute 40x CD-R Media (Silver, 50-Pack Spindle)

I buy spindle after spindle after spindle of these, and they're great. I never burn coasters (that is, end up with a CD that didnt burn correctly and cant be used for anything except my chai mug), and I never have trouble playing them elsewhere. Every other brand I've ever tried has had at least one of those problems. Memorex has always been problem-free.

I have had some trouble with a few of these disks, but I have a feeling that it's because of my burner. I have an HP 9500. It is a nice drive but I think it may be the reason why it messed up because after I restarted my computer, it accepted the next disk and it worked like a jem.

I like these disks because they also provide a lot of space to write stuff on. That's good for people who use those big cd holders instead of jule cases.

I have a Song CDRX700E 8x burner for my Dell notebook. About half of this Memorex spindle wound up in the garbage due to buffer underruns and garbled audio. I was convinced it was my burner or my computer that was causing the problem, but I when I switched to TDKs all my problems disappeared. Stay away from these CDs!!

Also, the large bright purple logo on the disk shows right through the white CD labels--yet another reason to switch to the all-white TDKs.

I don't know why everyone has gone to the 80 minute cd-r/cd-rw. They are much worse than the 74 minute 650 MB cds. Data is kept more reliably on 650 meg cds. On the 700 meg cds, the tracks are much narrower, and generally don't comply with orange book standards. Data on 700 meg cds have a much higher tendency to become corrupt compared to 650 meg cds. Older CD readers (any kind, including audio players) couldn't read these cds at all. Unless it is absolutely necessary, I would highly suggest 650 meg cds. There is more information on brands and quality here:
http://freetechsupport.freeservers.com/resource/cdr/index.html

After 16 man-hours of trying to back up three different computers with Veritas Backup Exec Pro v4.5 and Exec v4.2 on Pentium IV 1.7gig Windows 2000 Plexwriter 16/10/40A CDRW and Pentium III 700mhz Windows 98 Sony 10/4/32 CDRW and after uninstalling/installing software I found that the problem was with the Memorex disks. Pop in Sony 1x-16x 700mb disk and the backup works just fine. I purchased 150 of these Memorex disks from Amazon (not your fault) that I now can not use. Bad product Memorex!