How Big is your .. err .. Stash!

I'm just curious, for some of you with these huge lists, do you ever even burn any of it? I see some very old media in some of them (I have huge amounts of old media myself). It seems I do most of my burning O a few recently bought medias though (generally what I have the most of). With the older stuff, it seems, either its really good and I'm saving it for important stuff (and never wind up using any), its slower and I'm usally in a hurry, or I just cannot remember which drive it burns good on (I probaby have 20-30 media codes that applys to). I usally have to make an extra effort to try to burn through the older stuff (probably part of the reason I have so much media).

Its not that I dont burn anything, I just usally grab a verbatim 16x Or something else that I bulk purchased recently that I am trying to burn through, and usally ignore the older stuff.

I'm also curious .... is all this media for bragging rights?

I have 500+ DVD's of TY/MCC , and less than 50 CDR and am using the dvd's at a maximum rate of maybe 2 DVD's per week ... usually closer to 1 every two weeks ... I figure I'm good until the useful life of the DVD format is over

Similarly, I have 50ish cdr's, and haven't burnt a single one for almost a year. 1/2 the CDR's I got as a promotional deal, bundled with the DVD's Who is still buying CDR's?

And no matter the bargain, it's not worth the storage area .. if I'm never going to use it.

I'm gradually working my way through mine....but I can't resist a bargain!

I'll get through it eventually.

The Premium suff is for my backups and the lesser stuff for everyday use.

I bought all the TDK's as I got them for £1.35/25pk. Could have bought the same amount again but resisted!

Same here

As of late, I don't really have much of a stash...
[all stuff in small font is being reserved]
40 RICOHJPN R03
23 RITEK F1
21OPTODISC R16
21 OPTODISCR016
35 YUDEN000 T02
10 MCC 003
26 SONY D21
26 SONY16D1
9 RICOHJPN R01
2 CMC MAG D01
1 MKM 003
1 CMC MAG AM3
2 MCC 03RG20
1 TTG02
4 PRODISC F02

=222 pieces of media, currently...give or take 2 SONY16D1, 5 or 10 YUDEN000 T02, and 1 or 2 RICOHJPN R03.

Add in 2 Sony 48x CD-R, 10 Memorex 40x music CD-R, 6 Sony 4x CD+RW, 3 Maxell 3x DVD-RAM, 10 or 15 Maxell 4x DVD+RW, and 3 Memorex 2x DVD-RW, and you get a decent amount of writing that, at the rate I'm going, won't last until Christmas.

If I was to go retail shopping, I believe I would need to stock up on 8x media [000 T02 and MCC 003], rarer Japanese media [MXL RG03, Maxell002], and 16x Mitsubishi media [MCC 03RG20, MCC 004] in order to be satisfied. I think it wouldn't hurt to go and get those Panasonic 16x -R MIJs I see in my local stores, either.

Or, if all else fails, I would just get 75 HP DVD-Rs, knowing that they are good CMC MAG AM3, and be content. I believe there's a little function called HyperTuning that my A1P has that would work SWIMMINGLY with 75 pieces of the same media... Throw my BenQ back into my system, and I'll have SolidBurn. Then we'll really be cooking--err, burning!

Most of what I have was gotten at ridiculously low prices, so I couldn't pass it up. It all sits in one small corner of a room, and doesn't really take up that much space.

I think that mostly, I started stocking up when I realized that most good media was starting to disappear from store shelves here in the states.

Also, when I started burning, I wasn't as savvy, and used a lot of the typical name-brand media without knowing what it actually was, so I'm also insulating myself against the possible future need to reburn a lot of stuff. If old disks start going south, I don't have to worry about looking around for better stuff to transfer them to.

i'm a tad understocked at the moment, glad i saw this thread as i'd been meaning to take an inventory for ages..

DVD's
900'ish 'Verbatim Taiyo Yuden', most of them are the elusive and very sexy TYG02 of old , most of the rest are YUDEN000T03 and i think there's a few TYG03 around here somewhere, though can't remember if i ever got around to actually buying any TYG03 as was so happy with TYG02/YUDEN000T03.
300'ish Maxell RICOHJPNR03, didn't realise i was so low on these, must get lots more asap, just noticed that SVP are selling them for £12 per 100 now as opposed to the £16 they used to cost. I used to be a strictly only Verbatim TY man, but after a fair few thousand RICOHJPNR03 being so faultless they've become my favourite discs.

CD's
200'ish Verbatim CD's, can't remember exactly what they are; not fussed as only ever use CD's as giveaways now, all my music now lives in USB2.0 enclosures, got sick of wasting time searching thru 1000's of CD's just to play some tunes.

40+ DVD-R's MCC 03RG20 ( Verbatim/ DataLifePlus, Inkjet Printable, White)

My stash is huge.

12 Imation DVD+R's.

They suck.

11 discs now.

I just got done copying a disc, and boy does my hand hurt now!

90 TY02 8x DVD-R's, printable (from Rima.com)
2x50 8x DVD-R's, Sony MIJ (Sears pricematch)

4x50 Fuji 80min CD-R's MIJ (KMart sale in May)
1x20 Maxell CD-R Music MIT(Wallyworld)
1x48 Sony CD-R's MIT(Staples sale)

That's it for now. I haven't seen any good media deals since the Sony DVD-R pricematch one came up last month. Still trying to find someone here that sells MIJ Fuji CD-R's. I did see some tasty CD-R Pros the other day at Staples. Hmmmmmmm. You guys(and gals) are a bad influence.

i'm fairly well stocked now since my previous post..

DVD's
900'ish 'Verbatim Taiyo Yuden', most of them are the elusive and very sexy TYG02 of old , most of the rest are YUDEN000T03 and i haven't got any TYG03 around here after all.
1100'ish Maxell RICOHJPNR03, couldn't resist as SVP are selling them for £12 per 100 now as opposed to the £16 they used to cost, can't grumble at that

CD's
200'ish Verbatim CD's, can't remember exactly what they are; not fussed as only ever use CD's as giveaways now, all my music now lives in USB2.0 enclosures, got sick of wasting time searching thru 1000's of CD's just to play some tunes.[/QUOTE]

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I have so many Yudens that SVP orders from me. LOL ( Just j/king) Verbs too, I am stocked to the hilt, over 600 MCC004.

25 TDK DVD-R
21 TDK DVD+R
like 10 CDR...don't even know the brand...don't feel like checking (i believe it is TDK as well)
Been too busy to do anything

Hmm...I'll group it by brand:

SONY:

• 49* 8x AccuCORE DVD-R S0NY08D1 MIJ
• 75* 8x AccuCORE DVD+R YUDEN000 T02 MIJ
• 20* 16x AccuCORE DVD+R SONY D21 MIT + 1 MIJ
• 20* 16x AccuCORE DVD-R SONY16D1 MIT + 1 MIJ
• 9* 4x DVD+R RICOHJPN R01 MIT
• 1* 16x AccuCORE DVD-R TYG03 MIJ

Memorex:

• 46* 16x DVD+R RICOHJPN R03 MIT
• 47* 16x DVD+R MCC 004 MIT Prodisc
• 20* 16x DVD-R RITEKF1 MIT
• 47* 16x DVD-R ProdiscF02 MIT
• 25* 16x DVD+R CMC MAG M01 MIT

Philips:

• 20* 16x DVD+R CMC MAG M01 MIT

TDK:

• 99* 52x CD-R Ricoh MII by Moser Baer India
• 1* 8x DVD-R for Video TTG02 MIT

imation:

• 19* 16x DVD+R OPTODISC R16 MIT
• 21* 16x DVD-R OPTODISC0R16 MIT

Maxell:

• 4* 16x DVD-R ProdiscF02 MIT

Verbatim:

• 1* 8x DVD+R DL MKM 003 MIS
• 2* 16x DVD-R MCC 03RG20 MIT Prodisc
• 15* 8x Digital Video DVD+R MCC 003 MIT Prodisc

HP:

• 1* 16x LightScribe DVD-R CMC MAG AM3 MIT
• 1* 2.4x DVD+R DL CMC MAG D01 MIT

Panasonic:

• 10* 8x DVD-R TYG02 MIJ

...and some assorted pieces of media here and there.

What a nicely-presented list, Albert

Thanks. Looking at it again, I think I grouped it according to preference, somehow. [Except when Verbatim and Panasonic ended up lower than some of the others. But then, I prefer to use all my not-so-rare media over the harder-to-find stuff.]

Notice that CMC MAG M01 is the only one in red...LOL!

450 16x Verbatim +R DVDs
150 16x Verbatim -R DVDs
50 16x Maxell -R DVDs
100 48x Maxell Cd-R
Burn On,
Russell

Sup guys. Here's some of my shizz I scratched together.

*That box in the front contains +- 1000 discs.


>>>MiKeY

I can't count because some empty spindles are missing and discs in them are in jewel cases (~1100 discs )

All Panasonic spindles are new and unopened and No , they are NOT FOR SALE

Panasonic small boxes have 50 discs each in slim jewel cases (5 packs) and the big boxes have 200 discs each in 8x25 disc packs

I think I have total 2000 Panasonic TYG03 discs

Do you by any chance like Panasonic branded TYG03 media?

Look at all those Pannys!

/me drowns in drool

Now, if only Panasonic could make a decent burner to write all those high quality discs with the quality it deserves

Bwahahahaha...well said