Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These are excellent shelving units for storing CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays and VHS Tapes. They seem to be constructed very well and are fairly easy to put together as long as the directions are followed. If you have a lot of media to store (like I did) you will save yourself a lot of time if you plan how you're going to store your media before you start loading the shelves. The shelves have a trim piece that goes along the front edge of each side of the unit. These trim pieces somewhat limit the storage on each shelf as you can't get discs out of the corner unless you remove a disc somewhere in the middle of the shelf. That being said, here's my info and advice. The horizontal clear opening of each shelf is about 15 5/8". Each shelf holds approx. 40 CDs, 27 DVDs or Blu-Rays, or 15 VHS Tapes without having to put any behind the edge trim. Measure the linear inches of all of your media before you start loading the shelves then divide by the clear dimension. That will give you some idea as to how many shelves you'll need to store all of your media. I ended up having to buy two of these because of a door and light switch location that limited my wall space. The vertical clear opening is about 60 5/8". The dimension between each shelf for DVDs, Blu-Rays discs, and VHS tapes will be approx. 8 7/8" from top of shelf to top of shelf when the shelves are installed on the pins that are inserted into the sides of the unit. For CDs that dimension is approx. 6 1/4". If you set the shelves up like I did (VHS tapes on the bottom, CDs next, then DVDs and Blu-Rays on top you probably won't get all 9 shelves into the unit that come with it. I ended up getting 7 shelves into each unit and had to use one of the shelves to store DVDs on their sides. With my purchase of two of these units I chose to file my media in alphabetical order across the two units. That being said, I left some space on each shelf to add media as I go so I don't have to jockey too many discs are around when I add a disc to my collection. That allowed me to place some small display items on some of those shelves which adds to the look of the shelves.