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I've had zero problems with these TDKs except of my own making. They are 32X, as is my Backpack burner, so it's a perfect match. The price is awesome, so even the occasional coaster is not too serious.

I can't vouch for the other reviewers here, but I use a Sony Spressa CRX-140E CD-RW drive with these disks and the only coasters I get are the ones I've accidently caused (due to buffer overruns while accessing other programs when burning, burning the same files twice accidently and cancelling the burn job, etc.) and not because they're a low-quality product. I've gone through probably about 250 of them, too, for various client projects.

Frankly, I switched from Sony to Samsung and then to these, and I find their quality to be quite good, and even when I've thrown them, dropped them, and spilled Coke on them, they still work. Another big plus is the *lack* of decoration on the top, as I prefer my discs nice and simple, without coloring, huge logos, or lines to write things in.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking to get high-quality CD-R discs for the least amount of dough.

Burns fast on my plextor 24x and even faster on my plextor news 40x usb 2.0 , Only 1 coaster ever and thats because I was running 3d studio max , Tdk I trust

My fault, I guess. I didn't know the code for TDK music specific discs, so I was disappointed. They are still usable, but I wish I had checked into the product more judiciously.

I love this because the surface design of TDK is clean and simple: it is much easier to manipulate your labeling or artworks without much headaches (if you choose using CD labeling printouts). Some CDs have a color or dark design surface that give you trouble if you label things carefully with lots of remarks. Many times those dark surface design can come through too when you use the CD labeling over it, not so good. CDRWs, CDRs, DVDs of TDK I have have an empty surface with light grey line and tiny clean dots pattern on it, FYI.

When you buy blank CDs you get to do something to label it. I don't have much trouble with TDK blank medias so far, burning-wise or data loss. However, if you don't label much on your media surface, then it does not much matter what it is besides reliablity and price I think, should you consider other big brands. I try to migrate all CD data to DVDs, for fear of data loss and technology shifts over times, for better or for worse.