Why CD-R?????

[papalion]

Why would anybody buy a plain CD-R when for a few bucks more you can have a CD-RW which also writes regular CDs?

Is there any advantage, or am i missing the point?

[socalgal]

I've been going back and forth trying to figure out which one to get... I'm thinking the CD-RW will come in at a better value in the long run, since I plan to do periodic system back-ups with it, and why waste all those single-write CD's?

[Mntsnow]

Well it truely comes down to personal preference.(Doesn't everything though?)...I prefer CDR...

1 SPEED. 2 better compatablity with regular cd-roms, 3 the disks cost less . I'm sure there are other reasons but those are mine /forum/biggrin.gif

Mntsnow

[Bleeding Edge]

I just started looking at this market last night. Decided on the Yamaha CRW6416SZ www.yamaha.com/cgi-win/webcgi.exe/DsplyModel/?gHDR00007CRW6416SZ (http://www.yamaha.com/cgi-win/webcgi.exe/DsplyModel/?gHDR00007CRW6416SZ) Haven't placed the order yet but I'm pretty sure I'll be getting this one.

6x speed write (12 min./disk) 4x rewrite (up to 1000 erases and rewrites per disk).

"High compatibility and super stability"

On the cd-r side, I was looking at TEAC's 24x/8x-record or the 24/6.

[Bleeding Edge]

Forgot to mention the Yamaha writes to regular CD-R discs.