CMC Magnetics

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CMC Magnetics Corporation
Type	(TSE 2323)
Founded	1978
Headquarters	Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Industry	Digital media
Website	www.cmcnet.com.tw

CMC Magnetics Corporation is one of the world's largest optical disc manufacturers, established in 1978.

[edit] Products

CMC produces a full range of CD and DVD storage media products, including: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, Floppy Diskettes, Media Packaging. CMC media is sold by HP, Imation, Memorex, Philips, TDK, Verbatim, Staples, Office Depot brand and many OEM brands. Mr. Data is CMC's own brand. They have CD-R factories in Taiwan, China (Memorex, HP, Philips, TDK) and Hong Kong (Memorex, Philips).

According to online media enthusiast communities, CMC Magnetics is reputed to be one of the worst manufacturers of CD and DVD media on the market.[1] CMC Magnetics manufactures mostly "value" media according to digitalFAQ, their reputation for quality is almost universally low and the media is not recommended if durability or reliability is a concern. [2] Many Quality/Stress scans by commercial software like Nero CD-DVD Speed reveal the media to be among the worst performing[3][4], showing extremely unpredictable jitter and many CRC errors.