100 DVD+R Tesco €6.24

TheDriver

My local Tesco has the 100 spindle of DVD+r for €6.24 whereas all the smaller versions are more expensive. Seems a good deal. It was a normal white SEL

Capt'n Midnight

You're better off getting a Garth Brooks memory stick. Holds 5 Gigs.

Wez

Nice, this should be handy for work. Cheers!

byte

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You're better off getting a Garth Brooks memory stick. Holds 5 Gigs.

But only 3 Gigs are available! :pac:

Also possible it just won't work at all.

vibe666

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

You're better off getting a Garth Brooks memory stick. Holds 5 Gigs.

it's a con, i tried mine and now it's totally corrupted, no gigs.

Eph1958

TheDriver wrote: »

My local Tesco has the 100 spindle of DVD+r for €6.24 whereas all the smaller versions are more expensive. Seems a good deal. It was a normal white SEL

Which Tesco store are these in.... not available in the Square yesterday.

TheDriver

Mallow store, label looked like its a normal price as opposed to store special

Eph1958

TheDriver wrote: »

Mallow store, label looked like its a normal price as opposed to store special

Thanks for the reply....wouldn't mind a jant down to Mallow for the day....but it's a tad on the far side.

TheDriver

its a dump of a quinnsworth sorry tesco so wouldn't be worth the trip!

whirlpool

What do people still use these for?

former legend

whirlpool wrote: »

What do people still use these for?

Data storage

TheDriver

whirlpool wrote: »

What do people still use these for?

or putting films onto disc. Not used as much nowadays with HDD but still handy to have

Capt'n Midnight

whirlpool wrote: »

What do people still use these for?

works out at less than €14 per terrabyte , unaffected by the strongest magnets and can survive much higher g's when dropped than hard drives or tapes.

and unlike tapes can be easily read on most computers , at the very worst you'd have to phone a friend, tapes get snotty about version of backup software / OS service pack / drive firmware version / phase of moon


Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes DVD's hurtling down the highway.
—Tanenbaum, Andrew S.

whirlpool

Sounds like an awwwwwwwful lot of effort and inconvenience.

TheDriver

it is effort but you can backup 4gigs of photos on each disc and store them easily and very cheaply. Can never have enough backup......

Eph1958

They're very handy for booting up alternative live operating systems like Ubuntu etc. Nice to have older versions too without having to download them every time. Backup of images. Very handy for putting photos / video clips on for relatives who like to look at them on the telly. Reckon I've "lost" half a dozen USB sticks at this stage and SD cards seem to vanish into the ether whereas DVDs stay where they're put.....on the spindle for evermore, nobody's interested in "borrowing" them!!

former legend

whirlpool wrote: »

Sounds like an awwwwwwwful lot of effort and inconvenience.

Then don't buy them.

Christ, every time there's a BA involving CDs or DVDs.

noname123

Thanks OP

Just to say that the offer also appears to be on DVD-R.

TheDriver

I get 6 thanks and the garth brooks joke gets 72, ah come on BA Alerts!!!

mik_da_man

None in Douglas..

TheDriver

They don't seem to stock 100 in mahon point....