I use all colored CDR disks, they don't make any difference to me. I've
heard that gold colored should last longer than silver colored, but silver
has better reflection rate than gold.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "R Paddock" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CD R disks


> I have put data on eight gold colored CD-R disks and
> not been able to read from any of them.
> At the same time I have not had any problem reading
> from a different brand of silver colored CD-R disks
> that I put data on.
> The only difference I can see is the gold say have
> printed on them "CD-Recordable Media" and the silver
> have "CD-R Recordable".
> I have been told by two different people that the gold
> ones should work for data. The salesperson at CompUSA
> said that "they are all pretty much the same".
> I not sure but I think I read someplace that gold are
> for music and silver are for data.

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