Customer Reviews

Royal MD100 Media Destroyer 100 Paper Shredder

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This is a great shredder if you want to destroy CDs, DVDs, and credit cards, but I'd pass if you are looking for a personal shredder to effectively destroy paper.

The shredder appears to almost completely destroy CD's, leaving very, very small pieces in the catch basin.

The paper shredding functionality is not nearly as good as cross-cut shredder, leaving pieces that could easily be reassembled by somebody who enjoys puzzles. In order to shred a standard piece of paper, you must fold the pages in half, and you can only shred seven pages at a time.

The credit card shredding is about the same as paper, but since cutting credit cards up with scissors is even less effective, this is a good choice for that purpose.

Literally destroys cds, dvds and floppy disks. I was surprised when it chomped its way through the floppies, metal and all and left nothing but little pieces. As far as paper is concerned, I would use an other kind of shredder such as a confetti type as this one you have to fold the paper so it doesn't always shred in small enough pieces. If you have media to get rid of, there is no better little shredder than this. I keep it next to my computer and it doesn't take up much room so it is very handy to use.

This is perfect for the desktop. It excels at destroying credit cards, DVDs, CDs and Floppy Disc. In an emergency you can use it to shred paper, including staples.

Because DVDs, CDs and Floppy Disc are dense, they lay flat, and take up very little room in the debris basket. Since paper is light, it will bunch up, filling the debris basket fast. If you do a lot of paper, you want to consider a paper shredder with a larger basket.

Because it is shredding polycarbonate and metal, the feeder slot snuggly fits DVDs, CDs, and Floppy Discs. This reduces the chance of high energy debris. Do Not look into the slot while shredding. Because of the snug slot, feeding paper into the MD100 is not quick. If you want to shred less than 8 pages, but cannot leave your desk, you can use the MD100. If you want to shred more than 8 pages, or can leave you desk, it is better to use a paper shredder with a larger feed slot and a larger basket.

This is also a personal shredder, if you need to shred from more than two minutes at a time (approximately 24 DVDs or CDs or Floppy Discs), you should get a commercial grade machine.

Just found this same product on the CostCo website for $67.99 +Shpg!!! Save yourself the $30+

I have a number of shredders and bought this one mainly for it's capacity to destroy CDs and DVDs. It does an excellent job of that. It literally destroys them and they're totally useless and forever lost. The same for credit cards and small amounts of paper --- although I wouldn't buy it for paper as there are other machines far superior for that.

I did, however, have a disappointment with the unit. It simply balked at taking a diskette. It's advertised that it destroys these. And it does if you can get it through the throat.

Fortunately not many people use these anymore but I have some old ones I wanted to get rid of and was not happy with the results I got from this unit in my one attempt to get a floppy through. I plan to call tech support and see if I had misunderstood something or done something wrong.

The floppy finally did get through but only after jamming and balking. Once through, it was destroyed totally.

For CDs and DVDs, I highly recommend this little unit. It's very powerful and Royal has good and fast tech support. I own another of their small shredders and found that to be so.
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Like everyone else, I was looking for a way to destroy CD's/DVD's, primarily those used as backups. Now that it's possible to back-up almost an entire hard drive to a very few CD-sized media, it's important to maintain possession and version control. The possession is obvious: I wouldn't toss out an intact hard drive, for fear of identity theft, etc. The same is true of your backup media. Version control may be less obvious, but by dating my latest backups, and then shredding any older versions, I only have the "latest." There are good reasons to keep your older media - I'm just not going to debate them here.

The point is that this is an excellent shredder. Look closely at the illustration and you'll see what I mean "desktop" - it's really compact. And it does an excellent job. I've run all sorts of media through this bad-boy and there's nothing left but confetti. With shredded paper you could (if you had enough time, a flat surface and unlimited patience) put the original document back together again. Not so with this shredder.

For paper I've got a Royal 85X Confetti Cut paper shredder, also purchased from Amazon. It's great and the two of them take care of most of my shredding needs. My office is starting to look like Oliver North's....

I bought this shredder three years ago and it's still going strong! Over the three years I must've shredded around 1,000 discs, and about a ream of paper. I would've given this review five stars if it wasn't for a few drawbacks. The first is that it takes a while to shred a disc or a piece of paper. If you got a one or two disc job then it's A OK, but like me sometimes I do about 50 discs at a time. So it does get time consuming. It's also very loud. It doesn't matter if your shredding paper or plastic, it makes the same noise, so you can't really be watching TV and shredding to help pass the time. I primarily use this to shred CDs and DVDs, but I do use it to shred my junk mail and personal records when I'm too lazy to walk over to the other room to use the full-sized paper shredder. That's why I can't really complain that if you do shred paper you have to either rip it in half, or fold it in order to fit in the CD sized slot. The biggest problem I have with this shredder is the mess it leaves when you have to empty the bin out. Those tiny bits of CD foil flies everywhere. I hope it's not hazardous to my health because I might have accidentally inhaled some of it when dumping the shreds into my waste basket. It would've been great if it was designed to accommodate for a bag, so all you do is tie it up when the bin gets full, or have it be able to hang over a regular trash can.

I know it seems like there are more problems than its worth, but this is probably one of the things I've used the most in my room. It's small and compact, and feels very well made for the price, unlike some of the more expensive full-sized multi-purpose shredders that feels of cheap flimsy plastic. Even after all this time I haven't gotten it jammed like how most shredders I've used get jammed so frequently, and they only shred paper.

The only thing I do to maintain it is to oil it whenever I hear the blades starting to squeak. I just squirt some Office Depot brand shredder oil on both sides of a CD I'm going to shred and send it through. I don't know how long shredders last, but I'm satisfied with what I got out of this one, and I hope I still have a long ways more to go. It's just too bad they don't sell it on Amazon anymore in case I need a replacement.

Replaced an Excutive Cross Cut shredder that was operating for 3 yrs.

CON: Pricey for a little item. I expected a larger/taller shredder bin, emptying the bin often. Throat is small, must fold the papers in 1/2 (lenghtwise). Can't access the blades to clean if self-adhesive labels get stuck.

PRO: The enclose bin keeps the paper dust contained. It does the job. Won't know the Shredder's life span, hopefully it will out live my previous shredder.