DON'T BUY GIGASTORAGE OR CURSOR 80 min CDRs

[eugene188]

DON'T BUY GIGASTORAGE OR CURSOR
1. the reason is that the quality isn't up to par. I have purchased over 400 including my friends purchases we have purchased over 600 in the past 4 months. However we have over 100 coasters.
2. Many of them burn w/out problems but can't be read in anything except for a burner(a normal CDROM don't cut it for some reason).
3. The Overburn is very sketchy we wasted 3 CDs before using a Maxell(which worked).
4. Some CD's can't be read near the 580-600 MB mark and the files can't be read after that, even though there were no problems in burning.
5. The dye does not look very smooth at the edges of the CD, very wavy and not constantly smooth.
For those who don't know Cursor is made by Gigastorage.
I have emailed the company but obviously our 100+ CDs a month purchase is not big enough for them to consider our problem.
In conclusion Gigastorage can go screw themselves,(even thought they are cheapest in price) as the troubles they're CDs causes are not worth it. I'm buying another brand and telling all my friends to buy another brand.

[Wayniac]

Some of these manufacturers should be shot.

I can understand one or two giving a bit of grief, but when you've invested this much money and time into something you at least expect to see some return.

Some of these manufcaturers know only too well, that discs are going to be coasters before they even get used. Iv'e boought Mirror discs on several occasions, and each time out of 25 Iv'e had at least 3 go bad: some crack easy; some flake on the surface and make a mess, and some just simply fail.

The price difference isn't that great between the cheapest discs and quality, branded media in the UK - BUT you have to get them from the right place, ie a computer market:

####://www.computermarketsonline.co.uk/

I managed to get some 16x Verbatim 80min for 40p/57cents U.S, at a fair in Wolverhampton, UK. They also had tons of other discs made by different manufacturers, ie 16x Philips premium silver for 50p each.

At least by bringing you experiences to the public eye, some of these manufacturers will actually start giving a damn about the products they shovel out.

All the best.

Bye.

[jase]

I agree with what has been said, however I have to say that I have used Gigastorage CDRs in the past without any problems.

CDR performance is not just a function of the media, it depends on the quality of the writer as well. If you use a Teac or Plextor writer, you should find that any media works with about 95-99% success at the very least. However if you have a Philips, Acer, Ricoh or Yamaha these drives have problems with some cheaper media types and this could be the cause of the problem.

Of course, the media must take it's fair share of the blame. But if a top-quality writer can write to a certain media type without any problems you cannot just make a sweeping statement that that media type is bad.

CMC type 0 Cyanine discs work 100% in my Teac and Plex, but I still think of them as crap. Why? Because to get a *good* burn you need to write at 4x. 8x just will not do. Which was fine when these discs were introduced, but now it is just lame.

[Shinji Ikari]

you could also try dartek.com. they seem to have some great deals on CDR's. I'm getting 3 10pk's of Imation CDR's for like $12+S&H. They are in a flip case but I think it will do for me. Could not find a better deal anywhere else. Even at the $18 I ended up paying 60 cents per CDR. Pretty good considering that my last purchase came just over $1 per CD.