What, am I about to die? I last burned a CD a couple months ago.
i burned some porn into a disc a couple of years ago and then forgot about it. Don't know where it is, maybe it's the one hanged on the balcony to scare the birds away
burned a CD yesterday for work
In what universe is a CD easier or cheaper than USB or file sharing? Who are you sharing it with that even has a CD drive? What are you sharing that is less than 700MB anyway? This is about as much of a flex as saying you are still using 5.25" floppies.
I haven't had a machine with a CD drive in more than a decade now. What the frick are you morons doing?
the universe where I have an 18 year old vehicle with an optical mp3 reader, and the most valuable thing in my car is a cd book full of scribbled on cd-r discs full of chipstep albums I downloaded from youtube
7GB flash drive cost like 8 dollars compared to a single 25GB bd-r which costs under a dollar.
a 50 25GB bluray spindle cost like 20 dollars. That's less than a dollar a bluray(unless you buy the expensive brand which are not necessary)
i use the smartbuy brand which is the cheapest brand
You buy the flash drive once moron, and it literally works for a decade, everywhere except in secure environments. Other than autists and glowies, who even has a CD drive?
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you buy the optical discs once and they work for decades if not forever. depends on how well you take care of them
if you burn them and put them back on the spindle they'll probably last forever
the problem with flash drives is the file systems on them can get fricked up and then you have no way of retrieving your data. you have to reformat the drive(which deletes your data) to use the flash drive again
flash drives can also overheat and fail if you leave them plugged into your pc for too long. this happened to a flash drive i bought at a convenience. it got really hot and would no longer work
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Lots of things can go wrong with disc drives.
Discs themselves can rot. This is still a problem. >flash drives can also overheat and fail if you leave them plugged into your pc for too long
Why would you leave it plugged in? Would you leave the disc you burnt in the drive?
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>Discs themselves can rot. This is still a problem.
i would rather take the chance of my disc rottings than having my hdds fail
i have never been able to keep data on a hdd for long periods and that's because hdds always have problems
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if you are watching films from the flash drive you will have to keep the flash drive plugged in for hours
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Then it's not a backup, is it? Just put those files on your computer.
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>you buy the optical discs once and they work for decades
how long have you even had optical disks work for. the plastic and shit degrades and lasting a decade is quite a stretch.
thumb drives last longer so long as you refresh the power routinely.
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Nta, but I've got a bootleg copy of Revenge of The Sith from 2008 tat still works.
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I've got optical dics from before you were born, zoomer moron.
>noooo they totally DEGRADGE no CAP I read it in an article that was also telling me to inject vaccines and own nothing and rent everything fr fr
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I was born before optical disks were invented but ok
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>how long have you even had optical disks work for
since the early 2000s
and i used very cheap discs. The cheapest ones i could find
here's boondock saints dvd i burned in 2006
modified means i burned it in 2006
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>1366x768 >GNOME
You make bad decisions
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gnome is great
and 1366x768 is comfy
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glowies are less likely to suspect optical discs. they'll assume that they are outdated technology and won't even bother checking them. they'll go for hdds and flash drives first
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>ignore the sheer volume of chinkshit flash that exists, meanwhile DVD's don't suffer from QC issues
Data is not about ease or cost. It's about redundancy and the actual "data" in question and how preserved it can be. Is we're talking specifically about cost though then yes, there is no better storage medium other than CD's/DVD's to preserve valuable data for years after you store it. It's also not going to brick when you go to finally read it because of some moronic USB iteration horseshit or be unreadable to future systems.
>It's also not going to brick when you go to finally read it because of some moronic USB iteration horseshit or be unreadable to future systems.
What?
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Powering memory cells on and off and the materials/mechanism used in writing date make usb's degrade even when not used. This and OS driver funtime can frick them up. I would not put anything important on a USB unless there were a CD/HDD/SDD copy of it somewhere. CD's are written/read sequentially on a separate drive from the computer and will not corrupt if the copy process goes wrong or the USB/SATA port on the mobo is fricky. They are also not susceptible to EM interference as they are simply dielectric disks and magnetism fricks off in its presence.
So if you want your furry porn collection to survive the happening you better put it on a archival grade disk.
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>unless there were a CD/HDD/SDD copy of it somewhere
take SSDs off this list, they need periodic power (once every year or two) to maintain otherwise can suffer loss, and so aren't suitable for longterm cold storage
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Right, well by that I mean "main computer drive" or simply another redundant copy other than one usb. HDD's need their maintencence cycles too. CD's are effectively the safest long term storage medium in terms of physical and digital wear and their "cost to redundancy" makes them exponentially safer. Anything safer requires more physical material and IBM engineers.2
CDs and DVDs degrade pretty quickly. They are not really a good choice for long term backups.
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I literally have 20 year old cds stored in a black CD book on my dash that still work like they were just burned. They've been through 20 summers and 20 winters. It's shitty jungle music, but it works.
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See pic:
Data is not about ease or cost. It's about redundancy and the actual "data" in question and how preserved it can be. Is we're talking specifically about cost though then yes, there is no better storage medium other than CD's/DVD's to preserve valuable data for years after you store it. It's also not going to brick when you go to finally read it because of some moronic USB iteration horseshit or be unreadable to future systems.
Consumer/cheap CD packs that you get at walmart may rot over the course of 20 or so years, if left in the worst conditions. "Archival grade disks" are what you want for the most valuable data you have, it depends really on how long you want it to last. All/most are gold plated and will typically last 100 years, some even 1000 years if you really think your furry collection is worth saving for next millennium to make discovery channel shows about.
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>Consumer/cheap CD packs that you get at walmart may rot over the course of 20 or so years,
In my experience it can set in in just a couple/few years. No CDs I burned from back in the day survived more than 10 years, and that's even name brand ones. The cheap ones would flake off and fall apart in a few years at most.
I mostly use it to burn old game ISOs to disc. Those are almost always exactly 680 or 700MB and are easier than setting up a virtual CD drive on every PC I own or hard modding my game consoles. I also use it for non-volatile storage of software. USB drives are expensive (for portable storage) and rewriteable, so that means I always end up formatting them for reuse later. CDs aren't rewriteable, so I can't write over the old data which I probably will need later. This is good for drivers, specific versions of software which I might not be able to find later, and operating systems. Plus people who borrow usb drives from me never give them back, so its cheaper to give them a CD and tell them to keep it. Finally, most of my machines have disc drives anyways because I like to collect dvds, so its not really an extra hassle.
using a optical disc for an operating system is a waste of an optical disc because am operating system becomes outdated within a few years especially if it's a linux distro
usbs are the best for installing linux distros
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because an operating*
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>an operating system becomes outdated within a few years
The last OS I burned to disc was Windows 98, which was last month.
for my work purposes:
* CDs can be finalized to ensure they're not writable. maybe some USB storage devices can be configured that way but it's not typical
* CDs can be stored in a large media library for a organization more easily than loose USB drives
* CDs have a longer shelf life than USB drives
* CDs can be better labeled than USB drives
* Untrusted CDs are safer to use than untrusted USB devices
* CDs are cheaper when making large numbers of copies
you can make a usb flash drive or hdd not writable by sudo chmod 555-ing it
sudo chmod 555 will make it read only
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Couldn't you undo that just as easily?
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yeah you can but if it's all data you want and there is no unnecessary trash you will keep it read only
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But couldn't someone make it writeable and edit or delete the files? Even if you don't do it (which you might if you really need a USB drive right now, and its the only one available) someone else might.
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i gave the answer to that here
The chance of someone discovering your usb flash drive and changing the permissions is very small
no one in my vicinity knows how to change the file permissions on a linux system. They are all dumb normies
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yes you can the file system's permissions system, but someone can come in and change the permissions again. afaik a finalized optical disc is physically altered in a way that data can't be added to it through normal consumer disc writing hardware.
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The chance of someone discovering your usb flash drive and changing the permissions is very small
no one in my vicinity knows how to change the file permissions on a linux system. They are all dumb normies
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This isn't a personal use case but an organizational one, and while your coworkers probably can't chmod, they can probably format with the intention of reusing it for whatever they need a USB for.
The other related use case is
I'm a glowie and the only we're allowed to transfer things between some systems on finalized CDs.
where you want it be read-only because you're using it to transfer data to an airgapped computer and you want to ensure nothing gets transferred out. It probably should be paired though with a read-only CD device too. You could have the computer configured to not be able to write to the external media be it CD or USB storage, but that's one layer of defense rather than multiple.
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you don't take your flash drives to work first of all
whether the drive is read only or writable. if someone takes it it's gone.
even if it were permanently read only it would still be gone(stolen by someone)
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company devices with company data, not personal devices with personal data
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i was talking about personal data. i don't give a frick what happens to company data
I only have so many USB keys, it's a pain in the ass to constantly juggle and format them over and over again. Why would I not burn the windows drivers for my laptop to cd? They aren't changing, and it's a waste to dedicate a usb I could be booting linux images off of to that. Same with copies of windows, or stuff like stable debian installers. Also knoppix, I have knoppix on CD.
Plus, what this anon said:
I'm still burning discs for Dreamcast games, and the rare CD for my car that still has a CD player.
I do this for my DC, PS1, and car.
I burned so many music CDs and now just I buy them. I've dug into my burned CDs too many times to see the disc has rotted to shit. I dunno if pressed CDs are just better but they don't rot like the shitty burned ones.
Discs you burn yourself work with a special dye the laser interacts with. The dye is subject to degredation rather quickly. Pressed CDs are way better because they're just polycarbonate. There is a fungus that eats polycarbonate though, so don't store them in humid or moist places. The only pressed CDs I have with disc rot are from the 80's though, so I think they're pretty resilient. LDs on the other hand get fricked up easy.
Too real. CD-R/DVD-R costs have gone up compared to SSDs, might as well just buy more external drives.
Stacks of CDs are still super cheap if you're okay with the shit ones. 15 bucks for 70gb ain't bad.
I got some 35mm photos developed recently and they wanted me to pay 8 dollars for the USB stick, I asked if they still do CD's and I got femsplained by the b***h at the counter that most computers don't have a drive for that. Well, little did she know I have a USB Bluray/DVD reader, and on the way out I informed her that Windows is unauditable code designed to harm the user and she should install Arch Linux with Plasma 6.1 immediately to escape cyberhell. I saved 4 dollars by choosing the CD!
My photo place defaulted to cd, they had a form you filled out with what you wanted and a flash drive was extra.
It was like, two weeks ago. I burn CDs all the time.
I like not touching my phone while I drive and having a CD book full of my favorite albums on hand. It's not necessarily easier, but I just burn them while sitting and listening to music, it's not that hard. I like that they just exist indefinitely, unlike my phone playlists or whatever.
I burn podcasts onto a CD-RW every week. My car radio has an AUX jack, but I'd prefer not to use my phone's battery for audio playback during my commute.
I can scoop some CDs on a whim on my way home and start playing with my Dreamcast or PlayStation again. If I wanted to use USB/SD/etc. on either I'd have to order special hardware
i burned some porn into a disc a couple of years ago and then forgot about it. Don't know where it is, maybe it's the one hanged on the balcony to scare the birds away
I haven't rented in years because piracy is so easy, but I have a massive hoard VHS tapes that I got from various going out of business sales and yard sales.
i burned thousands of ebooks to a few cd-rs. i don't ave to use libgen or zlibrary ever agian. i don't have to worry about those sites shutting down like rarbg
i have like 5 cd drives. a few of them i had for more than 20 years and they still work
one came with my dell dimension 3000 i bought in the early 2000s
I realized. It was mdk2 for the dreamcast.
Emulation was getting to the point of "good enough" for a while back then and the dreamcast was the last thing I was burning discs for. I knew it was near the end.
I got some 35mm photos developed recently and they wanted me to pay 8 dollars for the USB stick, I asked if they still do CD's and I got femsplained by the b***h at the counter that most computers don't have a drive for that. Well, little did she know I have a USB Bluray/DVD reader, and on the way out I informed her that Windows is unauditable code designed to harm the user and she should install Arch Linux with Plasma 6.1 immediately to escape cyberhell. I saved 4 dollars by choosing the CD!
I tried getting an image printed with no scaling. I provided PNG, PDF, and even BMP formats to cover any possible file format issue they might complain about. They literally couldnt figure out how to do it. The girl call some guy over who just kept trying random things till eventually it worked.
I was stunned that someone who's job is to print stuff couldnt print an image without scaling and didnt even seem to know what I was talking about
Because I bought and imported some really obscure music from Asia that was only available in CD form on the musician's website and the old DVD player I wanted to rip it to FLAC with had malfunctioned.
A week ago, had to install Debian into some bank server, and security asked me to get DVD's inside instead of anything with flash memory. Had to buy a DVD adapter for it and left the DVD inside.
i burn discs occasionally. its different tech that suits different use cases, and its true most users dont have a need for discs anymore but the tech is still needed in some industries and will never go away.
i think you are lying. prove it. post a screenshot of the properties of a file that tells you when you modified it(saved it to the drive).
if it doesn't say 2004, you are full of it
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this says it was modified in 2011. that means i downloaded it and burned it in 2011
I burned so many music CDs and now just I buy them. I've dug into my burned CDs too many times to see the disc has rotted to shit. I dunno if pressed CDs are just better but they don't rot like the shitty burned ones.
A standard harddrive is way more impressive and a ssd is even more of a feat. A harddrive is like flying a plane an inch above the ground. And ssd is even more impressive as we've exploited quantum mechanics in a way that makes the former trivial.
i used to think it was japanese at sony who invented the optical disc but it was actually some white man who invented the laserdisk. laserdisk came out before compact disc and compact disc was based on laserdisk
even compact disc might have been invented by a white man if i remember correctly
>n 1968 the Gregg and Gauss patents were purchased by MCA (Music Corporation of America), which helped develop the technology further. His designs and patents paved the way for the LaserDisc, which helped with the creation of the DVD, compact discs, and MiniDisc.
Disc rot seems to be almost random in my experience. Naturally if you have anything important burned and absolute dogshit burned that you couldn't give a frick about then, again, in my experience, it's the ones with anything important on them that disc rot will seek out. The absolute dogshit? You can use them as coasters, frisbees, knee pads, heck use them for clay pigeon shooting, I guarantee frick all will happen to them and they'll be totally readable.
bd-rs(blurays) seem to be more durable than dvd-rs and cd-rs
all the burned blurays i have have no scratches on them. to scratch them you have to do it intentionally with a nation
bluray discs have a harder surface finish than cd/dvd due to their higher density making them more sensitive to scratches
early samples had them in cartridges (like the professional disc they had a little earlier which was almost bluray), but they went with an advanced scratch-resistant coating instead
>blurays take 1 hour and 50 minutes to burn on the slowest speed
nobody burns at the slowest speed. it's around 15-20 minutes to write a full disk, another 15-20 if you are verifying the writes after it's finished burning.
not how it works, you moronic monkey. i can't ever imagine being this poor and stupid. can't afford a bluray burner, has no idea how a bluray burner functions. thinks it's like burning a cd-rom to work in a cd player made in 1985. what a fricking moron. lmao.
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can confirm. had a blu-ray drive, only ever took just over 20mins to burn a disc. and I had one of the slowest.
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can confirm. had a blu-ray drive, only ever took just over 20mins to burn a disc. and I had one of the slowest.
ITT: Zoomies and their miserable knowledge about discs.
I have discs that I burned 20 years ago and they still work. All kind of brands, nothing special, most like 20-50 cent a disc.
Flat is justice but that doesn't apply to laptops. Selling desktops/laptops without disc drive is inhuman and insane.
the faster you burn, the more errors you get. sure it doesnt matter if your data is just music or movies, where data errors just result in an unnoticeable brief wrong noise or video artifact.
but if you have actual critical data like an OS installer, sure it might "seem to work just fine", but go compare its checksum and see if it holds up. If you arent actually verifying your data integrity, your statements that "it works" are worthless.
I pretty much just download all my music from Soulseek these days. I still have optical drives on my computer but they are for ripping and burning Blu-rays.
I did. I found a chipped PS2 slim in the apartment I moved into, and burned a CD to see if it worked.
I never even planned on using it, since emulation is just superior.
ITT: Zoomies and their miserable knowledge about discs.
I have discs that I burned 20 years ago and they still work. All kind of brands, nothing special, most like 20-50 cent a disc.
Flat is justice but that doesn't apply to laptops. Selling desktops/laptops without disc drive is inhuman and insane.
When I was young the girl next door showed me anime, and that she had like 5 VHS tapes of it. She acted like anime was her life. I got a CD burner and burnt like 50 DVDs of anime she liked and showed her, and she giggled at me and had zero interest in watching why of it.
still burning
In what universe is a CD easier or cheaper than USB or file sharing? Who are you sharing it with that even has a CD drive? What are you sharing that is less than 700MB anyway? This is about as much of a flex as saying you are still using 5.25" floppies.
I haven't had a machine with a CD drive in more than a decade now. What the frick are you morons doing?
Fake zoomer nostalgia
I burned a DVD last week with a Windows 10 LTSC IoT ISO to upgrade an AIO PC with Windows 7.
>Fake zoomer nostalgia
wait, weren't people were still burning CD's in like 2013. surely the process didn't die out THAT fast.
the universe where I have an 18 year old vehicle with an optical mp3 reader, and the most valuable thing in my car is a cd book full of scribbled on cd-r discs full of chipstep albums I downloaded from youtube
7GB flash drive cost like 8 dollars compared to a single 25GB bd-r which costs under a dollar.
a 50 25GB bluray spindle cost like 20 dollars. That's less than a dollar a bluray(unless you buy the expensive brand which are not necessary)
i use the smartbuy brand which is the cheapest brand
You buy the flash drive once moron, and it literally works for a decade, everywhere except in secure environments. Other than autists and glowies, who even has a CD drive?
you buy the optical discs once and they work for decades if not forever. depends on how well you take care of them
if you burn them and put them back on the spindle they'll probably last forever
the problem with flash drives is the file systems on them can get fricked up and then you have no way of retrieving your data. you have to reformat the drive(which deletes your data) to use the flash drive again
flash drives can also overheat and fail if you leave them plugged into your pc for too long. this happened to a flash drive i bought at a convenience. it got really hot and would no longer work
Lots of things can go wrong with disc drives.
Discs themselves can rot. This is still a problem.
>flash drives can also overheat and fail if you leave them plugged into your pc for too long
Why would you leave it plugged in? Would you leave the disc you burnt in the drive?
>Discs themselves can rot. This is still a problem.
i would rather take the chance of my disc rottings than having my hdds fail
i have never been able to keep data on a hdd for long periods and that's because hdds always have problems
if you are watching films from the flash drive you will have to keep the flash drive plugged in for hours
Then it's not a backup, is it? Just put those files on your computer.
>you buy the optical discs once and they work for decades
how long have you even had optical disks work for. the plastic and shit degrades and lasting a decade is quite a stretch.
thumb drives last longer so long as you refresh the power routinely.
Nta, but I've got a bootleg copy of Revenge of The Sith from 2008 tat still works.
I've got optical dics from before you were born, zoomer moron.
>noooo they totally DEGRADGE no CAP I read it in an article that was also telling me to inject vaccines and own nothing and rent everything fr fr
I was born before optical disks were invented but ok
>how long have you even had optical disks work for
since the early 2000s
and i used very cheap discs. The cheapest ones i could find
here's boondock saints dvd i burned in 2006
modified means i burned it in 2006
>1366x768
>GNOME
You make bad decisions
gnome is great
and 1366x768 is comfy
glowies are less likely to suspect optical discs. they'll assume that they are outdated technology and won't even bother checking them. they'll go for hdds and flash drives first
>ignore the sheer volume of chinkshit flash that exists, meanwhile DVD's don't suffer from QC issues
Data is not about ease or cost. It's about redundancy and the actual "data" in question and how preserved it can be. Is we're talking specifically about cost though then yes, there is no better storage medium other than CD's/DVD's to preserve valuable data for years after you store it. It's also not going to brick when you go to finally read it because of some moronic USB iteration horseshit or be unreadable to future systems.
>It's also not going to brick when you go to finally read it because of some moronic USB iteration horseshit or be unreadable to future systems.
What?
Powering memory cells on and off and the materials/mechanism used in writing date make usb's degrade even when not used. This and OS driver funtime can frick them up. I would not put anything important on a USB unless there were a CD/HDD/SDD copy of it somewhere. CD's are written/read sequentially on a separate drive from the computer and will not corrupt if the copy process goes wrong or the USB/SATA port on the mobo is fricky. They are also not susceptible to EM interference as they are simply dielectric disks and magnetism fricks off in its presence.
So if you want your furry porn collection to survive the happening you better put it on a archival grade disk.
>unless there were a CD/HDD/SDD copy of it somewhere
take SSDs off this list, they need periodic power (once every year or two) to maintain otherwise can suffer loss, and so aren't suitable for longterm cold storage
Right, well by that I mean "main computer drive" or simply another redundant copy other than one usb. HDD's need their maintencence cycles too. CD's are effectively the safest long term storage medium in terms of physical and digital wear and their "cost to redundancy" makes them exponentially safer. Anything safer requires more physical material and IBM engineers.2
CDs and DVDs degrade pretty quickly. They are not really a good choice for long term backups.
I literally have 20 year old cds stored in a black CD book on my dash that still work like they were just burned. They've been through 20 summers and 20 winters. It's shitty jungle music, but it works.
See pic:
Consumer/cheap CD packs that you get at walmart may rot over the course of 20 or so years, if left in the worst conditions. "Archival grade disks" are what you want for the most valuable data you have, it depends really on how long you want it to last. All/most are gold plated and will typically last 100 years, some even 1000 years if you really think your furry collection is worth saving for next millennium to make discovery channel shows about.
>Consumer/cheap CD packs that you get at walmart may rot over the course of 20 or so years,
In my experience it can set in in just a couple/few years. No CDs I burned from back in the day survived more than 10 years, and that's even name brand ones. The cheap ones would flake off and fall apart in a few years at most.
what files are you downloading that you need terabites of data?
uncompressed movie files and pc games?
you don't need terabites of data for ebooks, music, etc
you could fit an entire library of mobis and epubs on a single cd-r.
I mostly use it to burn old game ISOs to disc. Those are almost always exactly 680 or 700MB and are easier than setting up a virtual CD drive on every PC I own or hard modding my game consoles. I also use it for non-volatile storage of software. USB drives are expensive (for portable storage) and rewriteable, so that means I always end up formatting them for reuse later. CDs aren't rewriteable, so I can't write over the old data which I probably will need later. This is good for drivers, specific versions of software which I might not be able to find later, and operating systems. Plus people who borrow usb drives from me never give them back, so its cheaper to give them a CD and tell them to keep it. Finally, most of my machines have disc drives anyways because I like to collect dvds, so its not really an extra hassle.
using a optical disc for an operating system is a waste of an optical disc because am operating system becomes outdated within a few years especially if it's a linux distro
usbs are the best for installing linux distros
because an operating*
>an operating system becomes outdated within a few years
The last OS I burned to disc was Windows 98, which was last month.
I'm a glowie and the only we're allowed to transfer things between some systems on finalized CDs.
for my work purposes:
* CDs can be finalized to ensure they're not writable. maybe some USB storage devices can be configured that way but it's not typical
* CDs can be stored in a large media library for a organization more easily than loose USB drives
* CDs have a longer shelf life than USB drives
* CDs can be better labeled than USB drives
* Untrusted CDs are safer to use than untrusted USB devices
* CDs are cheaper when making large numbers of copies
you can make a usb flash drive or hdd not writable by sudo chmod 555-ing it
sudo chmod 555 will make it read only
Couldn't you undo that just as easily?
yeah you can but if it's all data you want and there is no unnecessary trash you will keep it read only
But couldn't someone make it writeable and edit or delete the files? Even if you don't do it (which you might if you really need a USB drive right now, and its the only one available) someone else might.
i gave the answer to that here
yes you can the file system's permissions system, but someone can come in and change the permissions again. afaik a finalized optical disc is physically altered in a way that data can't be added to it through normal consumer disc writing hardware.
The chance of someone discovering your usb flash drive and changing the permissions is very small
no one in my vicinity knows how to change the file permissions on a linux system. They are all dumb normies
This isn't a personal use case but an organizational one, and while your coworkers probably can't chmod, they can probably format with the intention of reusing it for whatever they need a USB for.
The other related use case is
where you want it be read-only because you're using it to transfer data to an airgapped computer and you want to ensure nothing gets transferred out. It probably should be paired though with a read-only CD device too. You could have the computer configured to not be able to write to the external media be it CD or USB storage, but that's one layer of defense rather than multiple.
you don't take your flash drives to work first of all
whether the drive is read only or writable. if someone takes it it's gone.
even if it were permanently read only it would still be gone(stolen by someone)
company devices with company data, not personal devices with personal data
i was talking about personal data. i don't give a frick what happens to company data
I only have so many USB keys, it's a pain in the ass to constantly juggle and format them over and over again. Why would I not burn the windows drivers for my laptop to cd? They aren't changing, and it's a waste to dedicate a usb I could be booting linux images off of to that. Same with copies of windows, or stuff like stable debian installers. Also knoppix, I have knoppix on CD.
Plus, what this anon said:
I do this for my DC, PS1, and car.
Discs you burn yourself work with a special dye the laser interacts with. The dye is subject to degredation rather quickly. Pressed CDs are way better because they're just polycarbonate. There is a fungus that eats polycarbonate though, so don't store them in humid or moist places. The only pressed CDs I have with disc rot are from the 80's though, so I think they're pretty resilient. LDs on the other hand get fricked up easy.
Stacks of CDs are still super cheap if you're okay with the shit ones. 15 bucks for 70gb ain't bad.
My photo place defaulted to cd, they had a form you filled out with what you wanted and a flash drive was extra.
It was like, two weeks ago. I burn CDs all the time.
I like not touching my phone while I drive and having a CD book full of my favorite albums on hand. It's not necessarily easier, but I just burn them while sitting and listening to music, it's not that hard. I like that they just exist indefinitely, unlike my phone playlists or whatever.
I burn podcasts onto a CD-RW every week. My car radio has an AUX jack, but I'd prefer not to use my phone's battery for audio playback during my commute.
Same, and I don't even have AUX
>he cant connect his phone and charge at the same time
what a nooob
Charging my phone as it's using battery power is worse than not using battery power in the first place.
I still use computers that can not boot from USB.
>inb4 just upgrade
I also have a 14900K with $500 custom loop
I can scoop some CDs on a whim on my way home and start playing with my Dreamcast or PlayStation again. If I wanted to use USB/SD/etc. on either I'd have to order special hardware
drivers for motherbaords i got without the driver disks? dumdum
> zoomie has dangerously moronic thought
> gets shit on
sometimes it's just best to shut the frick up.
I burn CDs for my car's CD player
What, am I about to die? I last burned a CD a couple months ago.
i burned some porn into a disc a couple of years ago and then forgot about it. Don't know where it is, maybe it's the one hanged on the balcony to scare the birds away
do birds not like porn
Birds are very puritanical
same goes for renting a VHS/DVD/Blur-Ay
I haven't rented in years because piracy is so easy, but I have a massive hoard VHS tapes that I got from various going out of business sales and yard sales.
I just bought an external DVD burner back in April.
burned a CD yesterday for work
i burned thousands of ebooks to a few cd-rs. i don't ave to use libgen or zlibrary ever agian. i don't have to worry about those sites shutting down like rarbg
>time enough at last to read all these ebooks
>cd tray breaks
i have like 5 cd drives. a few of them i had for more than 20 years and they still work
one came with my dell dimension 3000 i bought in the early 2000s
optical drives*
i copy the ebooks from the cd-r to the hdd
so i don't have to read from the disc and wear out my drive
I realized. It was mdk2 for the dreamcast.
Emulation was getting to the point of "good enough" for a while back then and the dreamcast was the last thing I was burning discs for. I knew it was near the end.
Something like CD's will come back, probably a 3D crystal thing in a tube that stores 666,666 PetaBytes and can be filled up entirely in 10 seconds.
I got some 35mm photos developed recently and they wanted me to pay 8 dollars for the USB stick, I asked if they still do CD's and I got femsplained by the b***h at the counter that most computers don't have a drive for that. Well, little did she know I have a USB Bluray/DVD reader, and on the way out I informed her that Windows is unauditable code designed to harm the user and she should install Arch Linux with Plasma 6.1 immediately to escape cyberhell. I saved 4 dollars by choosing the CD!
true story, huh? you forgot to mention this actually happened
I tried getting an image printed with no scaling. I provided PNG, PDF, and even BMP formats to cover any possible file format issue they might complain about. They literally couldnt figure out how to do it. The girl call some guy over who just kept trying random things till eventually it worked.
I was stunned that someone who's job is to print stuff couldnt print an image without scaling and didnt even seem to know what I was talking about
Why?
Because I bought and imported some really obscure music from Asia that was only available in CD form on the musician's website and the old DVD player I wanted to rip it to FLAC with had malfunctioned.
A week ago, had to install Debian into some bank server, and security asked me to get DVD's inside instead of anything with flash memory. Had to buy a DVD adapter for it and left the DVD inside.
Too real. CD-R/DVD-R costs have gone up compared to SSDs, might as well just buy more external drives.
I'm surprised a zoomer would burn a disc (let alone have the knowledge) to begin with since they're so used to owning nothing.
i had to hand in my c assignments on cdr when nobody was burning cds anymore so i kinda knew
i burned a bluray mdisc last year and will this year.
i enjoy fixing old computers and laptops so i burn all the time
what drive to buy in 2024? would be mostly ripping CDs and DVDs. do drives still come with drm cancer?
i burn discs occasionally. its different tech that suits different use cases, and its true most users dont have a need for discs anymore but the tech is still needed in some industries and will never go away.
i don't know anyone who has 10+data on their computer
The data on people's computers don't last long because hdds are not reliable as long term storage
who has 10 year old+ data on their computer*
I have 20+ year old data on my hard drive, passed on from other drives. My current one is 10 years old.
i think you are lying. prove it. post a screenshot of the properties of a file that tells you when you modified it(saved it to the drive).
if it doesn't say 2004, you are full of it
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this says it was modified in 2011. that means i downloaded it and burned it in 2011
NTA but why doubt, plenty of hoarders keeping old stuff.
raidz2 foreverstorage btw
Last time I burned CD was to include it with my thesis and I knew that I will probably never have to do it again.
BURNING
RIPPING
ZIPPING
FLASHING
Love old skool terminology with their hueg GUIs, gradient effects, mishmash of layouts and low % chance of actually working.
Why you're trying to make me sad
I burned so many music CDs and now just I buy them. I've dug into my burned CDs too many times to see the disc has rotted to shit. I dunno if pressed CDs are just better but they don't rot like the shitty burned ones.
that pisses me off tf does she mean "wow"
A standard harddrive is way more impressive and a ssd is even more of a feat. A harddrive is like flying a plane an inch above the ground. And ssd is even more impressive as we've exploited quantum mechanics in a way that makes the former trivial.
i used to think it was japanese at sony who invented the optical disc but it was actually some white man who invented the laserdisk. laserdisk came out before compact disc and compact disc was based on laserdisk
even compact disc might have been invented by a white man if i remember correctly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paul_Gregg
>n 1968 the Gregg and Gauss patents were purchased by MCA (Music Corporation of America), which helped develop the technology further. His designs and patents paved the way for the LaserDisc, which helped with the creation of the DVD, compact discs, and MiniDisc.
I'm still burning discs for Dreamcast games, and the rare CD for my car that still has a CD player.
I had to burn a copy of my undergrad thesis for the archive so it was in the first two weeks of February 2017.
Why does this schizo make this thread every day?
I still burn MP3 CDs for my car. Last one was a few weeks ago.
I'm glad optical media is dead I hated those fricking things.
Wtf does that image have to with your post?
i posted the wrong image by mistake
Disc rot seems to be almost random in my experience. Naturally if you have anything important burned and absolute dogshit burned that you couldn't give a frick about then, again, in my experience, it's the ones with anything important on them that disc rot will seek out. The absolute dogshit? You can use them as coasters, frisbees, knee pads, heck use them for clay pigeon shooting, I guarantee frick all will happen to them and they'll be totally readable.
if disc rot affects my porn dvds i hope it affects only the bad parts i don't wank to
Chances are it won't even be readable. It's over for you bro.
i have dvds with disc rot that are still readable. they freeze at the part that has disc rot
last week?
dont think it will be the last time...
i have experienced disc rot with some poorly manufactured dvds i have
my casino royale has transparent holes in it when i hold it up to a liight bulb
i have never experienced disc rot with the discs i have burned myself.
look at 10 random optical discs over a light bulb and you will at least find one that has disc rot
if you see holes shining through that's disc rot
just bought an external DVD-RW so no
i burned a couple cd's a few months ago for my playstation
now floppy discs, i haven't touched one in a long time
bd-rs(blurays) seem to be more durable than dvd-rs and cd-rs
all the burned blurays i have have no scratches on them. to scratch them you have to do it intentionally with a nation
bluray discs have a harder surface finish than cd/dvd due to their higher density making them more sensitive to scratches
early samples had them in cartridges (like the professional disc they had a little earlier which was almost bluray), but they went with an advanced scratch-resistant coating instead
i am burning a bluray right now. i need to make some space on my hdd. it's full
blurays take 1 hour and 50 minutes to burn on the slowest speed
>blurays take 1 hour and 50 minutes to burn on the slowest speed
nobody burns at the slowest speed. it's around 15-20 minutes to write a full disk, another 15-20 if you are verifying the writes after it's finished burning.
>nobody burns at the slowest speed
enjoy all your errors
not how it works, you moronic monkey. i can't ever imagine being this poor and stupid. can't afford a bluray burner, has no idea how a bluray burner functions. thinks it's like burning a cd-rom to work in a cd player made in 1985. what a fricking moron. lmao.
can confirm. had a blu-ray drive, only ever took just over 20mins to burn a disc. and I had one of the slowest.
the faster you burn, the more errors you get. sure it doesnt matter if your data is just music or movies, where data errors just result in an unnoticeable brief wrong noise or video artifact.
but if you have actual critical data like an OS installer, sure it might "seem to work just fine", but go compare its checksum and see if it holds up. If you arent actually verifying your data integrity, your statements that "it works" are worthless.
For me, it was probably an old version of Fedora
>will never be again 12 years old and selling CD-Rs to classmates with their favorite songs that I downloaded off Napster for $5
I also hosted a ROM site on Geocities. I just like to see people happy.
I never once enjoyed 'burning' CDs.
The frick were all of you backing up?
Only a psychopath would burn CDs instead of people.
I'm going to dig out my burner and burn one now. I don't know what but the smell and feel of the warm disc is nostalgic to me.
Nah, it was a copy of W7 and I definitely knew I wouldnt burn disk anymore cause my new PC didn't have cd/dvd drive
I pretty much just download all my music from Soulseek these days. I still have optical drives on my computer but they are for ripping and burning Blu-rays.
It must have been nearly 15 years ago.
I ripped a few DVDs last year, I even bought an external drive just for the occasion.
i burned a few CDs to play on my sega CD last month
genesis does
So fricking what?
I did. I found a chipped PS2 slim in the apartment I moved into, and burned a CD to see if it worked.
I never even planned on using it, since emulation is just superior.
I was so much happier back when burning CDs were still a thing
m-discs are the best way to store data unless you have a tape drive
ITT: Zoomies and their miserable knowledge about discs.
I have discs that I burned 20 years ago and they still work. All kind of brands, nothing special, most like 20-50 cent a disc.
Flat is justice but that doesn't apply to laptops. Selling desktops/laptops without disc drive is inhuman and insane.
I don't get it
When I was young the girl next door showed me anime, and that she had like 5 VHS tapes of it. She acted like anime was her life. I got a CD burner and burnt like 50 DVDs of anime she liked and showed her, and she giggled at me and had zero interest in watching why of it.