When optical drives started to become the norm in home computers, all of a sudden there were two types of CD-Rs for sale, the data kind and the "music" kind. As to the question of whether or not a CD labeled as a "music" disc is safe to write data to or not, the answer is yes. Are they as reliable as "regular" data CD-Rs? I’ll...

I received some CD-RW (that’s Read/Write by the way) blank discs because I ran out of my standard CD-R’s and needed to burn some traditional audio CDs (yes, some people still do this). These happened to be Memorex CD-RWs. I pop in the disc and no matter what burner program I use (Nero, WinAMP, etc.), the maximum write speed is 4x. I’m not...