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I was browsing a technical store's website and came across some DVDs. On sale. You'd need an optical drive to use them, unless you use them to decorate your walls
If you do use them, what do you use them for and why do you not just use hard drives, SSDs or USB thumb drives instead?
This is not a hate post. My whole existence is living in the 90's, so... :P
I mentioned it to my partner the other day but medical contraceptive packaging looks remarkably similar to how storage media was packaged in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Take the logos off and play a game of DVDs or Plan B?
Sure! First prize: a cracked Grand Theft Auto 3 Second prize: strawberry flavored
We have a spindle of CD-Rs. I wish it was DVDs! We'd have a use for DVDs! It's WAY easier to just burn a Linux ISO than it is to faff about with a USB stick. Less convoluted to boot from, too (hybrid ISOs are a bit cursed; it doesn't matter if you're doing the usual pure "overwrite the entire stick" thing, but it's not great if you're also using the drive for other stuff – that's not an issue with DVD[-+]Rs, they come in packs and each individual disc is cheap enough it's one disc per thing).
Wee do have a couple OpenBSD install CDs. We don't use them enough to be super useful. But a Debian install DVD? I'd use that.
-- Frost
I still have some and I burned music on them.
Yes, I use them to store data that I just need to read. I also rip my DVDs
Backing up my movie collection to hard copies mostly. I also make mix cds for my friends if i find out they sill use cds. I got an external read/write drive in 8th grade and its still kicking butt. I also have a 360 on my retro shelf, but i mostly just use the external drive or local files.
You are a gold mine to your friends! :D
BD-Rs for cold storage, they are cheaper than HDDs/SSDs and offer a fast solution to clear up space from existing hot storage without actually getting rid of the data. USB sticks are not suitable for archival, they degrade very soon.
And they also easily become bricked and unusable... Discs definitely are reliable. :)
Yep, I'm using m-discs blu ray for storage of some of my data because I'm afraid of bit flips that I can't detect. I had this happen already with images that got destroyed without me noticing.
I have a small library of music CDs, because I liked music before there was an internet. I recently ripped them to .FLACC.
I use them to burn DVD's that I can play on my PS5. I rip discs more than I burn them but sometimes I'll make a copy of a rare disc or an .iso I found online.
What's your latest rare find that you made a copy of? :D
No, and my only readers are on the old workstations I use as servers. Bigass thumb drives just do more better and have since 16 gigs made a thumb drive bigass
I agree. It's just some much simpler to use a thumb drive. However, I also agree with those that comment that they are prone to bricking and malfunction of some sort.
No, and I no longer have any optical disk readers. My last disk reader was on an XBOne and that’s long gone
I used optical disks almost entirely for music and video content but gave up once convenience of streaming media caught up. The thing is I don’t care about owning any. If don’t really have music or movies I like listening/watching over and over so buying doesn’t make sense. My comparison to streaming is broadcast. I’m paying $20/mon for essentially radio but without the inane chatter, ads, and unrelenting repeat of pop music.
Edit: in response to another comment - even for operating systems, I have gigabit fiber so download it as needed whenever possible
I had never even heard of radio subscriptions before. :O
I used to have one of those little joke .exe files called Cupholder. If you clicked on it, it opened the CD drive.
😂 legendary
Fuck bud I still use floppy disks. It's damn hard to find a pc with a dedicated floppy drive. Those usb floppy drives fail writing to floppy more often than not.
physical media has a place with collectors and appreciators and i hope that doesn't ever stop being true
its resistant to censorship and it gives creators a thing to sell
Tru.
I use blu-rays, but that's it
In theory I still do.
In practice, so rare I basically don't.
Top reason: Operating systems.
Secondary reason: Backup artwork or research.
But, no, I don't. I've been lax. Pendrives and big drive on hand.
Would be good to get back to some DVD backups of important things.
DVDs don't seem to be on the brink of extinction in the same way floppys are, so I think you're good! :) What art do you do? :D
Red Dwarf may be prophetic, and all the old formats will come back. Old formats, as in older than CD/DVD.
And the floppies may even get big, really big, for the really important stuff, to help make sure we don't lose it.
I have a stack of blank CD-Rs. I mostly bought them for running homebrew and import games on my Dreamcast. Recently I did find some old PC games that wouldn't work under WINE, so I ended up using some of the CD-Rs to reinstall Windows XP on my Thinkpad T60. That took 8 discs.
Holy shit this comment unlocked stuff in me. You can't just carelessly throw around terms like "Dreamcast", " Windows XP" and "that took 8 discs".
