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Bought the higher capacity 700 mb CDRW's since I have been using the 700 mb CD-Rs for some time now with no problems. Figured the CDRW's would be just as trouble-free. WRONG!!! I tried several versions of Roxio's Direct CD and can't even get one disc to format. Went through 20 of the 25 disks and tried every concievable plan. Many people on the Roxio site claim a combination of poor software with the poor quality of Memorex CD's result in unreadable disks as I was shocked how common this very same problem was till I visited Roxio.com and found the discussion group area of the site. Buyer beware as I sent an email to Memorex and they skirted the issue saying I needed higher speed CD's for it to work and I told him I formatter using 1x , 2x and 4x speed to test and all failed. Havent heard from memorex since then, so they really stand behind their product huh?

I bought 10 pack 4X. No one disk works. At first I thought that it maybe my burner is not good. I tried several other burners. No one can burn such disks. Totally junk. I discarded all of them.

Stay clear at all costs. Lots of bad stuff written about this media. Pity I didn't heed the advice. Bought two 5-packs a few years ago. My CD Writing program told me they were made by InfoDisc. Slowly but surely, one by one, the discs failed to be recognized as CDRW's by several CR Writers. Of course this means that they have been "demoted" to ... CD-R's, and from what I read, quite bad ones when it comes to data integrity. Two years on from my purchase, NONE of the 10 discs can be used as CD-RW's anymore. Shame on you Memorex.

I can't understand how does Amazon still sell this product; I've bought it in Canada, and greatly regret!

I found that one package of disks worked just fine, then the next one I bought did not work at all--not a single one of them. My CD-RW drive refused to recognize them at all. Needless to say, I am going to switch to another brand of blank media.