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.
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.
I have a small library of music CDs, because I liked music before there was an internet. I recently ripped them to .FLACC.
I keep meaning to do this, but do I really want to buy a dvd reader just to try to rip all my older music and movies that I seem to be getting along without?
Actually, a more likely reason is baby pictures. My mom was trying to be forward thinking and sent copies of all the pictures she took of my kids on cd-r or Kodak picture disk. Those are more important
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
I use blu-rays, but that’s it
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.
Cool! Are floppys still being manufactured? I’d love to make a rescue boot floppy for when I need to do maintenance on my system!
They are not being manufactured anymore but it is still possible to buy new old stock. One guy is trying to keep them in circulation (he owns floppydisk.com) and I found a somewhat recent article that has some good info as well: https://www.raconteur.net/technology/the-floppygeddon-cometh
Yeah I kina lucked out I found a 10 pack of new ones on Amazon about 2 years ago. And recently, while cleaning out an old auto performance shop, there was like 2 or 3 55gal drums full of used and new floppy disks.
Also more recently there was something about Japan finaly upgrading their i.t infrastructure from floppy disks to more modern tech.
Hell apparently they still make cassette tapes for use in prisons because you can’t make a shank out of one with the materials they use for them.
And you did not share that loot of floppys with the rest of the world? D:
The inmates at the prison that I was working at all had off brand CD Walkmans.
I thought about it. But I all belonged to a dead guy. And I thought to my self. This is cool and all and I can nit pick through this load of stuff yes But he is dead and I’m alive. And this stuff didn’t do him any good in the end. So I’d rather not waste my time.
I did find this though funny enough there is an archive online of all the contents in it
Casettes are being reintroduced in the (indie) music industry as well
Yeah it’s really bizarre seeing my teen get excited about buying cassettes and vinyl
I started buying CDs from Japan and on the used market (thank god discogs).
Pretty weird :D
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.
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 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”.
