Product Description

Item #: IMN19030. Disc Stakka CD & DVD Manager
An efficient, simple and cost effective solution for managing discs. Automated carousel stores, protects and retrieves your discs including data CDs, DVDs, music and game discs. Each unit stores up to 100 discs and connects to your computer via USB for power and data. Units stack up to five high to create a tower that holds up to 500 discs without extra cable or desk space. Includes OpdiTracker™ database and powerful search engine software, to locate any file in seconds. Eject the disc and insert into your computer, CD or DVD player, or game console. Requires Windows® XP, 2000, ME, 98SE or Macintosh® OS X (version 10.1 or higher), Pentium II or G3 processor, 32MB RAM minimum (64MB RAM recommended), 200MB free disk space USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 compliant port, CD or DVD drive for capturing disc content.

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Product Details

• Brand: Imation
• Model: 19030
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 5.80 pounds

Features

• Automated carousel that stores, protects and retrieves your CDs, DVDs and other discs
• Holds up to 100 discs
• Can stack units to hold up to 500 discs
• OpdiTracker content management software features a powerful search engine
• Connect over 100 towers via powered USB hubs (not included) to control over 50,000 discs from a single computer

Amazon.com Product Description
If you are a music or film lover with dozens of CDs and DVDs, you know how frustrating it can be to find the exact disc that you want. The Imation 19030 Disc Stakka CD and DVD Manager is designed to eliminate that frustration once and for all. You'll never waste valuable time searching for discs or files again. The Imation 19030 is an automated carousel that stores, protects and retrieves your optical discs including data and audio CDs, DVDs, and game discs. Each Disc Stakka unit holds up to 100 discs and connects to your computer via USB for power and data. You can stack units up to five high to create a tower that holds up to 500 discs without requiring additional cabling or desk space. In short, this is a truly efficient, simple and cost-effective solution for managing all of your audio, data and video discs.

The Imation 19030 works with the bundled OpdiTracker content management software, which features a database and powerful search engine. So when you're looking for a particular CD or movie, you simply browse your discs as you would any file in your computer, and the OpdiTracker software delivers the right disc in seconds. It's as simple and convenient and searching for a file in your computer's hard rive. Once you locate the disc, simply have it ejected so you can insert it into your computer, CD or DVD player, or gaming console.

With the Imation 19030 you can say goodbye forever to those frustrating and seemingly endless searches for the music or movie that you want. Each unit stores up to 100 of your favorite discs. Simple to set up and link to your computer via a single USB cable, each unit had a fully motorized disc insert and eject that keeps your discs protected. If you're a true audio- or videophile, you can connect over 100 towers via powered USB hubs (not included) to control over 50,000 discs from a single computer.

Intuitive, easy to set-up, and simple to use, the Imation 1903 will quickly become your best friend when it comes to disc management.

Customer Reviews

Stay away from this equipment
At the beginning, I really thought this is a very nice product. It does solve the CD organize and automatic storage problem for many people. However, this equipment is poorly engineered. I bought four units and all of them failed within a year for various reasons. There is no easy way to even take the discs out of the faulty units. If you ever think about move this equipment to another room, it is almost bound to fail. Customer service usually take 2 days to respond. The phone service guys do not answer questions about disc stakka because they know this is a bad product and rather not to deal with it with the disappointed customer. Imagining someone charges your $400 to organize 300+ CDs for a year and then quit. I am completely pissed off.

The future is here.
The marketing blurb talks about "the future of CD storage and content management", which I thought was marketing speak for "this will store your discs". However, it's not until you actually use it that you discover how useful this product really is. I store a lot of stuff to CD, and yesterday was trying to find a particular document that I knew was on one of my 50 poorly labelled CDs. Normally this would take me quite some time, to go through them all if I'm not sure which CD it is on. I typed in the name into the search wizard, and the disc was in my hand within 10 seconds. How easy was that. I think it may be time to buy another one.

Great Normally
I now own 3 of these, and they all act the same. 95% of the time they work as advertised and have absolutely no problems at all. That other 5% is when they just don't eject a disk and you need to try it a second time to get what you want out. I've even had it lose a disk, which takes a 20 minute maintenance cycle to figure out. I have also had very minor software issues (missing disk entry) which were easily figured out. But over all, these have performed quite well.