The Disk Stakka is an ugly blue-and-white plastic box slightly larger than a conventional CD storage box. The difference between the two is that this one has a USB connection on the back. Plug it into your PC and you can catalogue your CD or DVD collection.

After inserting a disc into the front-loading slot, you will be asked to name it and enter some basic details. You can get the PC to automatically catalogue what's on the disc, but this requires ejecting the disc, putting it in the PC, pressing a couple of buttons, then putting it back in the Stakka - a bit too fiddly for our liking.

Because it doesn't actually read the contents of the disc, you can store any CD or DVD disc, such as Xbox and PlayStation 2 games, but you won't be able to catalogue them fully.

Once it's all done, you can access the discs from your PC. If you want a particular file from a disc, simply browse or search for it using the Stakka software and double-click on the file, at which point the Stakka will eject the corresponding disc.

It works, but it's a lot of hassle, unless you happen to have 100 discs full of un-catalogued files. It's also ridiculously expensive.

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