Customer Reviews

Memorex CD-RW Media 16X-24X 80MIN Ultra Speed with Slim Jewel Cases - 5 pack

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I have a PLEXTOR 48/24/48A CD burner that I got 2 years ago. It works flawlessly. I have been using VERBATIM 650 MB CD-R/Ws and was really exited when someone finally introduced a 700 MB ULTRA SPEED disk. ULTRA speed disks record nearly 2-1/2 times faster than HIGH SPEED disks on my PLEXTOR and the small increase in space would have allowed me to use [1] disk instead of [2] in many of my backup applications. As soon as the new disks arrived, I began to substitute them for the smaller 650 MB ones. Fortunately I kept making the backups on the smaller ones [as a SAFEGUARD] because the MEMOREX CD-R/Ws were NOT reliable. The data written to them became corrupted in some cases. Initially, I wasn't sure why so I contacted PLEXTOR [they were familar with the MEMOREX reliability problem] and told me that these disks were NOT recommended by them. They suggested that I either continue using the VERBATIM 650 MB ULTRA SPEED CD-R/Ws or 700 MB HIGH SPEED ones. As I understand the problem, the technology to make a reliable, higher capacity ULTRA speed disk [larger than 650 MB] HAS NOT been developed yet!!!!!!

These discs allow to be written at 16x only despite the claim of 16x to 24x "ultra speed". The CD writting software identified the manufacturer as INFODISK.

I purchased the disc pack to make VCDs. The discs proved unreliable for VideoCD. VCDs did not play on the same CD-RW drive (under WinXP), or in my consumer DVD player (where other brands work.) The VCDs played on Mac OSX using DLC (freeware VCD player) but the video was choppy and the player became unstable.

I am forced to give this Memorex product one star because zero is not an option.

I have had a pack of these for a while and they are just terrible. I use a nice NEC DVD burner which is considered by burning pundits (they exist!) to be a really good drive. It's given me no problems ever, except with these disks. After the first burn they work fine but any subsequent burn they are tempermental at best and often do not work at all. Although I can quick-erase (or do a longer erase) and then burn a compilation, the data verification fails most of the time. Ignoring that, and trying to use the CD anyway, results in inconsistent, but generally bad results. For instance, my DVD player (which has had no problems with other media) can kind of run these disks but other CD drives cannot.

All in all a major disappointment. My burner can do CD-RW at 24X but even burning these at 16X on a fresh disk results in similar results. They are essentially very expensive one-time use CD-Rs.

After I rewrited the disks 2-3 times, I found all became useless. Burning process always failed and disks became unreadable. Do buy Sony, Maxell or TDK instead.

I got these just to back up some of my stuff. Ha, what a laugh. After a couple months these things basically corrupted themselves in as little as a week, sometimes 3 or 4 days. At first I thought it was only the 4 out of 5 discs!!! Wrote some stuff on the other, came back a week later to retrieve it.........Gone. This happened on my Dell, Alienware and the HP at work. Take my advice stay away from these, or anything else that Memorex makes. Or you might just be taking yourself to the Hospital from the fits of rage that you'll acquire from using their products.

As I wrote in another review of these disks, on my NEC DVD burner that is rated to do CD-RW at 24X, these disks are abyssmal. Even when I was sure to use a brand new one and not exceed 16X, the disks are good for one burn and any subsequent burns are questionable, at best. I have given up on these. They are expensive one-time use disks and certainly the most useless media I've used since I started disk burning back in 1999.

Their quality would not be acceptable even if they were cheap (and they are expensive). They are honestly not worth bothering with if free because they are frustrating. I have some old Memorex 4x disks I've been using for a while and they have given no problem, but these are junky junk and among the worst products I've used in my entire consumer life, including crossing the boundaries into cars, mp3 players, etc. They simply do not work and the money is thrown in the garbage to equal benefit.

These are the only CD-RW's I can create VCDs with AND run on my set-top DVD player (Sony SVP-S530D). Even the green boxes of Memorex don't work, but these consistently work great.

Does not work. Used these Memorex ultra speed CD-RW's on an LG burner and a NEC burner on windows XP. All 5 CD's in the pack appeared to record on the first try. But no data was there when trying to read the CD's. All 5 of the discs cannot be burned a second time, even after doing a full erase, always getting an "Illegal Disc Error" on the LG burner or a "Write Error" on the NEC Burner.

I purchased a 5-pack of Verbatim 24 times CD-RW. Tested all 5 CD's in the pack. All 5 recorded perfectly twice. One of the CD's has been rewritten more then 50 times so far, without one fail with the same computer set-up and the same LG and NEC burners.

My wife purchased those last year, in spite of the fact that I always use Sony or Verbatim. I saved some of my digital pictures on one, and as I always do backed it up on another one. My wife was able to print some of the pics, thereafter, the 2 cds were unreadable. I lost my data, and am unable to even get any files on those cds. Don't waste your money on those, and most importantly, your unique data.

These discs will only successfully burn one time. Subsequent burns always result in corrupted files. Even on the first burn, my DivX player has a very hard time reading the disc. (Takes about two minutes to load a video file and it can only fast-forward at 2x. A brief power outage while we were in the middle of watching a movie took about half an hour to recover from because it took so long to fast forward back to where we were at the time of the outage.) The player does just fine with other CD-RWs. Avoid these like the plague!