AmazonBasics 700MB 52x CD-R
- Ships in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging
- One spindle containing 100 700 MB capacity, 52x write-speed CD-R recordable compact disks
- Records up to 80 minutes of audio (up to 150 mp3s), 350 photos, or 700 MB of data
- 52X transfer speed means you can burn a full disk in 90 seconds
- Distributed by Amazon.com; backed by one-year AmazonBasics warranty
Product Description
AmazonBasics products are quality electronics accessories offered at a great value.Amazon.com Product Description
This spindle of 100 AmazonBasics 52X CD-Rs provides a natural storage solution for music, photos, and archiving important data. Each disk offers a capacity of 700 MB. These CD-Rs support fast write speeds up to 52X and provide an audio recording time of 80 minutes.
The AmazonBasics 52X CD-Rs offers a capacity of 700 MB, fast write speeds up to 52X, and an audio recording time of 80 minutes.
Recommended Uses: Creating audio CDs for playback on a CD player. Sharing photos with friends and family. Backing up and archiving up to 700 MB of data.
Technical Specifications: Capacity: 700 MB Format: CD-R Recording Speed: 52x Recording Time: 80 minutes Warranty: AmazonBasics 1-Year Limited Warranty [PDF] Documentation: Helpful Hints [PDF] CD-R: Q… More >>
AmazonBasics 700MB 52x CD-R
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5 comments
Miss Margaret Picky on December 20, 2009 at 3:11 am
I was just looking for an easy and inexpensive way to store some files to clear up some space on my hard drive, mostly movies ripped in +/- 700MB avi format and music files in mp3 format. I am not a highly technical-oriented user and just want something that works and I honestly don’t care how it does it, I don’t want to be worried with it any more than I want to be worried about the pad of paper I jot my grocery list on.
I inserted one of these discs in my Mac and the disc utility program opened up. I dragged a movie icon onto the CD icon, renamed the disc with the name of the movie and then clicked the burn button. My computer copied the file and then verified it. The only thing that was disturbing at all was the yellow-and-black radiation symbol that the disc-burning utility uses as an icon!
After ejecting and reinserting the disc and clicking on the icon, the movie played just fine, with no noticeable difference from playing it off the hard drive other than the sound of the disc drive. Same thing with music, some photos in jpeg format, and books in pdf format, easy as pie.
The packaging was fine–the cardboard box is designed to hold the product safely. More plastic could be eliminated from the spindle and cover. To open the package took only a housekey to slit the tape that held the boxes shut. The orange and black AmazonBasics logo and the entire label are quite appealing in a minimalist way and definitely mesh with the Amazon brand identity.
It doesn’t really matter to me who manufactures the discs because that could change. All I care about is whether or not they work without any problems or hassle and they do. Amazon backs these with a one-year guarantee against defects so if there were a dud batch it would be taken care of with an email or phone call.
So these discs work just fine, thank you very much, recommended.
If you will use more than fifty, go ahead and get AmazonBasics 700MB 52x CD-R (100-Pack Spindle) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] because it certainly is nowhere near twice as expensive.
Values Privacy on December 20, 2009 at 6:01 am
I just want to add my stats.
I burned about 10 CDs in a row all successfully. I know I get a 20-30% failure rate if I used memorex so these must be of better quality.
It’s supposed to come with frustration-free packaging and it more or less does. Usually CDRs from brick and mortar stores don’t come in blister packs so I saw no difference in packaging than store bought ones.
EDIT (Oct 2009):
I went through the whole spindle without a single burning error (burning on a Mac). The disks were compatible in every computer I tried them on. Obviously, I haven’t had them long enough to make a comment about how long they last, but since it’s a new product the data just isn’t there.
Dawn Dowdle on December 20, 2009 at 6:58 am
Love having 100 CDs in a tower to record songs and data onto. Will take me quite a while to fill them up. They work great, too. I really like this!
D. L. Herrington on December 20, 2009 at 7:01 am
I wanted to like these “generic” CD-R discs, but after burning 7 and having 3 of them fail I decided enough is enough and returned the remainder. I am using an Apple MacBook Pro with Intel processor. The discs failed with a “could not calibrate laser” message.
Daniel G. Lebryk on December 20, 2009 at 8:51 am
CD-R’s have really dropped into the realm of commodity. In the past several years, I haven’t had a single CD-R burn fail on any media I’ve ever tried. Burners just work and don’t seem to care what kind of media you throw at them.
These Amazon Basics are no exception. They are Basic – not gold standard archival CD’s, they are basic everyday use CD’s. And they deliver that function very well, thank you very much.
They are the standard size, 700Mb or 80 minutes of CD music, CD-R’s. That means you can record music, data, or MP3’s on them one time. The discs are a very nice shiny silver (brighter than most) with black Amazon and CD-R logos. The surface requires a black permanent marker, just like most other CDs.
Burn speed – a 1.2 hour audio CD burned in roughly 2 minutes. Is that 52X as claimed? Oh its somewhere north of 24X, and certainly plenty fast. The good news, no failures when running the burner at maximum speed. At this kind of speed, I don’t really care if its 40x or 52x or 80x – 2 minutes to burn a CD is well within the time I’m willing to wait for a burn. 40 minutes burned in under a minute, including finalizing the disc.
To me, if one or two CD’s burn without failure, all 50 will burn fine. The track record on CD blanks is just so good, I see no real reason to test a ton more discs. I used iTunes directly to burn audio CD’s through this optical drive, Samsung SH-S223Q/BEBS Internal Half Height Supermulti SATA 22X Lightscribe DVD-Writable Drive. No coasters. There is no reason to believe that Nero, or Roxio, or Windows would burn any differently – they all use more or less the same methods for writing to blanks.
These are NOT CD-R Audios for use in Audio CD recorders (if you need those, you probably already figured that out).
A word about packaging, since Amazon is making a really big splash about ‘Frustration Free Packaging.’ A spindle of 50 arrived in a nice neat cardboard box. The packaging was easy to open, except for destroying the packing slip while opening. The spindle is a ‘cake box’ type, and it seals up very nicely. The outer shrink wrap is clear plastic. The CD-R you see in the picture is a paper wrapper around the discs inside. Fortunately the CD-R words are printed large and in dark black ink on a silver background on each disc, and the cake box is crystal clear. If this hadn’t been the case, it would be extremely difficult to identify which discs are inside. So yes it is relatively frustration free. The entire box is recyclable, they did not use any plastic air pillows or stuffing.
I like these. I shop based on price and brand names. I tend to stick with brand names, just because I use so few CD-R’s, going ultra cheap isn’t necessary (by that I mean 100 packs of totally generic, spindleless blanks in shrink wrap). My experience with the AmazonBasics dual layer DVD’s and these CD’s gives me a vote of confidence that there’s a new brand name in town to consider.