Recordable? OR Rewritable?
Jan 05 '01
I bought my two teenage daughters a CD-writer for Christmas. I've never used a CD-writer before and didn't have a lot of knowledge. Unfortunately it was only a few days before Christmas so I didn't have time to do much research.
I went to my local CompUSA and talked to one of the sales people. I know, that's probably the last place I should go for advice on buying a CD-writer. Never the less, he was very nice and answered my questions and seems knowledgeable on the subject. I decided to buy an HP9150i since I have an HP computer and have been very happy with it.
Since I know my daughters like to jump right in and start using their presents right away, I decided I should buy a pack of blank CD's. there was a whole aisle dedicated to blank CD's. At least a dozen different brands, colored, some with cases, some with out, 5 packs, 10 packs, 50 packs. You name it.
The toughest decision was should I get recordable (CD-R) disks or rewritable (CD-RW). The CD-RW's are more expensive; sometimes twice as much as the CD-R's. The advantage to CD-RW's is you can erase and reuse them as many times as you want or until the CD is worn out. The CD-R's you write on once and that is it.
I decided to get the rewritable disks since my daughters tend to change their mind quicker than they can finish doing what they originally wanted to do. I bought a 10 pack of store brand CD-RW's. They were about $5.00 more than the CD-R's.
After we installed the CD-writer, my youngest daughter wanted to be the first to record a CD. We started the program, went through all the steps and she picked the songs she wanted to record. I took about 30 minutes to actually write the CD and they say you shouldn't run any other programs while it's writing. After it was done writing, we played to see if it worked. It did!! Wonderful!
I told here that now she had her favorite songs on CD, she could go play it on her CD player. WRONG! It wouldn't play. After a bunch of reading, I came to the understanding that CD-RW's don't work in regular CD players. We stuck the CD in our CD-Rom drive and was able to get it to play after adjusting a few of the setting on the player. However, it wouldn't work in a regular CD boombox.
The CD-writer came with 1 blank CD-R disk so my oldest daughter decided to try that one. This time it only took about 20 minutes to write. After writing, she took it and tried it in her CD player. It worked!! So now it's another trip to the computer store to buy blank CD-R disks.
Now, what am I going to do with these 10 CD-RW disks I have. I guess they would be good for backing up data. They hold 700 MB each. If I didn't have plenty of hard drive space, I could use them as storage space for lesser-used programs. I could even make a copy of a software CD as a backup. I'm sure will be plenty of things that will require the use of a CD-RW instead of a CD-R. In the mean time, I will be purchasing CD-R's for writing songs to CD.
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Member: Linda
Location: St. Louis, MO
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