What's the largest CDR disk available?

[Compworld]

I am looking for larger CDR disks like around 1GB. Do they them this large yet? If not, what's the largest size that is currently available?

Thanks,

CompWorld

[mcavic]

For CDR's, I believe the largest size is the standard 650 megs. But, DVD-R and DVD-RW are becoming common, and those will hold 4.7 GB. Different drive, though, of course.

[Compworld]

Guess its time to upgrade.... Again....... Are those rewriteable though?

Thanks,

CompWorld

[Macguru]

Yes [google.com], some are. :)

[Leosghost]

deleted due to lousy spelling by ashamed owner ..see below ...( neato.!.. posts 5 and 6 ..different text in both ..both post 141 ....Brett ..how 'd I do this? )
:))

[edited by: Leosghost at 12:28 pm (utc) on April 9, 2004]

[Leosghost]

..900 to 920 megs ...very hard to get unless you were a game writer business ...this is what made it so hard to copy the big games even with "raw" copy such as clone cd...not so much "buffer over/under run " more like "menu just fell of end of disc" or down the hole in the middle ....

given the size of DVD ..why do you want one?

Mcavic ..650!.....you musta stepped out for awhile there guy ....

DVD with one of the more expensive (for now ) burners with let you burn 9 GIGs on one disc ( not counting "flip over" dics ) ..

[Compworld]

We do a lot of work and changes to several different web sites , as well as handling orders and data. The 700MB disks are just too small, and I am just looking for an alternative. Surprising that the manufacturers don't make bigger CDR & CDRW disks. I am sure other people would be interested in more space also.

CompWorld

[PCInk]

The standard sizes for CDs are 185Mb, 650Mb and 700Mb.

It is not physically possible for a standard home-use CDRW laser to burn holes in a CDR small enough to get 1GB of data on a CD. If you need something larger (with a smaller laser) you can get it, but they are DVD's, which of course means updating your CDRW to a DVD-RW. But if you need more space, you need more space...

[Leosghost]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in previous post ..
They do exist upto 900 or 920 megs ..
they are what some of the PR PS2 type games were burnt on by the makers ..and were hard to get ...
However we have been able to get them in France via direct office suppliers and at least one major discount house in Paris ...

And France has never exactly been ahead of the pack for consumables either in evailability or price ...

There are plenty of sites on the german internet and usa who sell these too ...

[PCInk]

From a CD supplier:

These premium grade 99 minute capacity CD's will work as 80 minute discs on any modern CD writer, and together with specific software and hardware, can go all the way to 99 minutes.

And:

Some CD Writers will not work as expected when you set maximum CD length to 99 minutes.

So, you need to check with the manufacturer of the CDR drive, plus possible download software to enable these to be used. Apparently, many CDR drives will not write to more than 89:59 minutes, a full 9 minutes short of the capacity of the disc. So be careful before you order these.

[Leosghost]

I would hazard a guess that the precautions would include not running them on a very fast speed writer as the velocity at the edge on a disc is quite staggering and low quality ones can explode in the drawer ....causing severe sadness in user ....

Somewhere or other amongst the mess of stuff I've got on this machine I think I've got a txt file all about cd and dvd issues ...when /if I canput my hands on it I'll post the link ..

(anyone know of a free program that I could install that can find things that I can't remember the name of ...the whatsit that came with 'doze is useless unless I remember pretty much exactly what I'm looking for )

Meanwhile the name of the guy who wrote it may be something like Craig McFadden ....you could always try a search ...

If you do get ahold of it it's probably the best and most informative thing on the net that you don't need to have a Phd and a propeller head for ..

[Jon_King]

Compworld
We moved to DVD for our backups for the same reason you are looking for bigger CDR's. They work great and now that the blanks are in the $1.50 range I consider them a good solution for 4.7 gigs of storage.