A CD-R burner is as easy to use as a toaster

Pop the blank CD disk into the burner, drag and drop the files, and 5 minutes later you have 650 or 700 MB safely stored on your own CD. Nine minutes is from an 8x burner. If you are stuck with a 4x burner it takes 18 minutes. Now almost every company markets an OEM version of a 12x burner.

Actually 32x and 40x CD-R burners are in the market since September 2002.

Sleeves in bulk. The plastic jewel case can cost as much as an entire CD.

I started off with bulk CDs from HiVAL which cost about $1 each. When I upgraded to an 8x CD-R burner I upgraded to Maxell disks (the 100-bulk spindle at the far right). Today 700 MB disks provide a bit more storage over earlier 650 MB disks.

What makes burning so easy on the CD-R burner when you buy from ProDirect is that you get Roxio, formerly Adaptec, Toast software with Direct CD (or burner software for a PC if you use Windows).

Experience over the years has taught us how to store scanned photographs. We have 40,000 slides to store (which is why we need a Creo flatbed). We store those slides on these DVD-RAM units. The snapshot here shows a few of the units.

FLAAR uses Maxell DVD-RAM disks and Maxell for burning CD-R disks.