The Imation Disc Stakka is a management tool for keeping those messy CDs organized and accessible. It does the painfully obvious as well, retrieves them. The Stakka holds 100 discs and with the OpdiTracker software you can manage your CD collection anyway you want. Welcome to Imation! Imation brand is trusted by worldwide data storage professionals since 1996. We deliver innovation in a new generation of safe data protection and storage solutions.
There are as many ways to organize and store your discs as there are CDs lying in that desk drawer of yours. (Oh don’t try to deny it, we all toss CDs in a drawer somewhere with the intent of organizing them “someday.”) The Imation Disc Stakka is an innovative new idea in CD & DVD management, and can hold 100 discs in its internal carousel. Up to 5 Stakka units can be connected and “stacked” to give youum, storage up to 500 discs! It also connects to your PC or Mac via USB and can organize your entire collection of discs with the included OpdiTracker software installed on your computer.
Does all this add up to the ultimate disc storage solution? What’s in the Box? One Disc Stakka Unit, Software CD, one pretty USB Cable, and the Stakka Instruction Manual. (Silica gel nowhere in sight.) What’s Good About It? The Disc Stakka was very easy to setup and get working. I installed the included OpdiTracker software on my Apple Powerbook, connected the USB cable from my laptop to the Stakka, and fired up the software.
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I inserted a movie DVD, and was greeted with a message about adding the DVD to OpdiTracker. I said to myself with excitement “My good friend, Mr. Stakka, let’s get started!” I clicked “Ok” and was presented with a new disc info screen. Which was the beginning of the downward Stakka spiral for me. You see, the Stakka can’t recognize discs on its own – it needs you to type the name of the disc, and then select what kind of disc it is. Now granted, there are about a jillion disc types you can select from the drop down: Ok, I named my DVD and selected the disc type myself. Time to read and index the disc contents.
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The DVD promptly ejected itself from the Stakka, and I was instructed by the software to insert the DVD into the DVD drive on my laptop so that the OpdiTracker software could read the contents of the disc. I had expected the Stakka to read discs itself, and reference a database on my laptop to match up with what it read from the disc. This isn’t the case, however. I then surfed out to IMDB and grabbed the image for my movie DVD, and added it to the image section for the disc. Is a surrealistic Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike, for those of you who are wondering.
Imagine a Japanese David Lynch cranked up on acid (yes that’s right, even weirder than Lynch) and you’ll imagine what is about – almost. (It’s really weird.) The entire process of cataloging a single disc took several minutes from start to finish. I ejected my movie DVD, and switched to the main application view in OpdiTracker.
From here, you can search for files, eject discs, and set options. So say for example you needed to eject a disc, you would select the disc and click “eject,” very simple.
If you were looking for a specific file on a disc, you could search for that filename, and then eject the disc with the file on it from the Stakka, and insert it into your CD/DVD drive on your PC, and then access the file. What Could Be Improved? The addition of a disc reader in the Stakka would make this the ultimate disc storage solution. With a built-in DVD-ROM, the Stakka would be able to automatically identify the name of the disc, the disc type, and read and index the disc contents. With some clever coding, the OpdiTracker application could reference IMDB if it detected a movie and pull in DVD images and details automatically. If Imation decides to add a DVD-ROM to the Stakka 2.0 it would be just about perfect – once inserted, you would never need to eject your discs, you could simply select the disc you wanted, and transfer the data via USB (theoretically). As it is now though, the disc Stakka takes more time and manual effort than I would like to catalog a disc.
It is easier for me to keep my discs, movies, and music CD’s in a case, flip though myself and select the disc I want. There’s just no reason I would ever need to search for files on a DVD movie, Playstation 2, or Xbox game disc.
There is one application where I could see the Stakka being indispensable though, and that’s with backup discs of personal files, shares, and burned collections of MP3’s. I have several burned CDs of archive files I have saved over the years, and usually these discs are cryptically labeled “2002091001.” Finding files on these types of backup discs on your own is a nightmare, but the Stakka made finding files on backup CDs a breeze. I’ve also worked at several smaller companies that would burn backups of critical documents, files, etc to DVD as well as backup to tape. With the Stakka, it would be quite simple to locate files on disc quickly and eject the disc with the files you needed. GadgetMadness Verdict: Great for Burned Discs, Otherwise Too Much Effort The Disc Stakka is a great product that assists you with cataloging and quickly finding files on burned CDs. Let’s hope Imation makes a Stakka 2.0 with some enhanced functionality and the ability to read discs as well as organize them.
The transit time will vary by delivery address and our chosen ship method. Their shockingly lightweight Disc Stakka, which stylistically resembles something like a restaurant booster chair for toddlers, is designed to rid me and the rest of the world of our optical backup woes. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Sign up to get insider deals first, exclusive promotions and more delivered to your inbox each week. There are just a couple of conditions, which basically boil down to letting us know — for the full terms and conditions, please visit https: Uploader: Date Added: 8 July 2014 File Size: 11.86 Mb Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2003/7/8/10 MacOS 10/X Downloads: 56512 Price: Free.Free Regsitration Required Posts navigation The unit, although very large, disf USB bus-powered, and requires no additional power adapter. The industrial design of this mechanism is genius.
Currently Out Of Stock! The solution to extend the life of discs is to store them in a unit that keeps them in a vertical position, like books on a shelf. Sign up to get insider deals first, exclusive promotions and more delivered to your inbox each week. So, for the casual home-user, one might be best off staying with their binder, especially if the binder normally collects dust anyway. Touch screen visibility and operation was great and easy to navigate. And Disc Stakka units can be added or removed from anywhere in the system without having to reboot. The Mac software will be available mid May with a beta version on the web site available for downloading before then.
It can then be stored safely in the Disc Stakka for immediate retrieval at any time. TigerDirect Business is not responsible for typographical or photographic errors. Its internal and inaccessible carousel holds five-inch optical discs sorry, no mini-CDs for you. Stakkka Disc Stakka for Linux project Interested in reprinting this article? And so, while I still have my installers for programs like the Adobe Photoshop 3 demo, and the original Macromedia Stakoa, I also have an organizational nightmare on my hands. I believe this is the first and only time I’ve written a negative review here, but bottom line.
Quite a while a go Disf was given a Disc Stakka to review and when discussing the concept of writing the review, I had all these great ideas of how I could use to re-organise my drawers, shelves, desk, floor and a myriad of other places I have CD wallets, Spindles, the plastic tops from the spindles and just plain loose CDs and DVDs lying around. And just when you think that might be all you can supposedly use up to of these towers, connected to a computer via USB hubs, all with the same database. 2x Imation Disc Stakka Automated 100 CD / DVD Stackable Storage Carousel Bought 2 of these about 2. But I do have a few small complaints. The dialogue box also pops up when a disc is inserted into the PC drive, so one can skip the initial Disc Stakka load and catalog the disc in advance of storage.
If you need to store more than discs, never fear, you can actually stack up to five Disc Stakka units on top of one another and they are then effectively treated as a single unit. All others trademarks and copyrights mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. I’ve owned these units for several years and all I hear is bad raps about their quality. The USB cable is supplied. Additional information about Imation is available on the company’s stakkw at www.
Imation Disc Stakka – One very good thing about them is that putting discs of any type into the system creates a searchable database, and this was extemely helpful. The system also allows users to record the name of the person who borrows a disc. The OpdiTracker software sorts its discs by whether they are currently being stored or if they are ejected, and one can even keep track of ejected discs by giving their last known whereabouts, or to whom they were lent. If only I’d read other reviews. Just tossed them in the garbage. Great idea that just didn’t work.
With one of the broadest product lines in the industry-spanning from a few megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes of capacity in each piece of media-Imation serves customers in more than 60 countries, in both business and consumer markets. I think that the marginal benefit of a device like this increases as the number of units increase. Back to Search Results.
The Imation Disc Stakka stores discs in this way, thereby providing the ultimate protection for valuable optical media. Secondly, the OpdiTracker software packaged with the device is not fully upgraded.
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