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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on Nov 16, 2018 18:55:55 GMT -5
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Post by Interesting on Nov 16, 2018 21:51:26 GMT -5
I've been trying to locate a drive cheap for the heck of it. But yeah likely the incremental costs of the discs killed it, plus optical discs were on their way out anyway.
If it could do it to a regular uncoated disc or regular paper, that would be neat...
Me, getting a burner that could do dual layer DVD-RW's would be interesting...if dual layer dvd-rws were out there...?
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 23, 2018 20:56:55 GMT -5
I had one, but never used it a great deal.
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Post by Interesting on Dec 28, 2018 22:00:02 GMT -5
I just got a small pile of LightScribe DVD+R media for fairly cheap, indeed it has that timing pattern near the hub. Now I just need a drive  Unfortunately I now have a fairly colossal pile of blank DVD+R media. I was intending to use for backups but 4.7GB is just not enough... for what? Should I really back up my PVR onto DVD+R media? Sigh. What a colossal waste... |
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Jan 12, 2019 22:37:04 GMT -5
Unfortunately I now have a fairly colossal pile of blank DVD+R media. I was intending to use for backups but 4.7GB is just not enough... for what? Should I really back up my PVR onto DVD+R media? Sigh. What a colossal waste... |
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Post by Interesting on Jan 13, 2019 0:29:54 GMT -5
That is true, CD and DVD media are likely will survive floods as long as they're reasonably protected from abrasion, but hard drives likely will not. Not sure about SSDs...
And fire kills everything. There's a reason why it's "Kill it with Fire!" and not "Kill it with flood!"
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 14, 2019 20:26:29 GMT -5
I had one, but never used it a great deal.
It took halfway to forever to label a disc with it. Close to 1X speed. |
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 14, 2019 20:34:32 GMT -5
Unfortunately I now have a fairly colossal pile of blank DVD+R media. I was intending to use for backups but 4.7GB is just not enough... for what? Should I really back up my PVR onto DVD+R media? Sigh. What a colossal waste... Given the effect of Kryder’s Law, it’s probably cheaper now to back up a hard drive on another hard drive than a stack of optical media. Definitely easier and faster! |
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Post by Interesting on May 14, 2019 21:58:47 GMT -5
Cheaper if you already own gobs of blank media and dvd writer? Having to buy another drive instantly adds additional cost.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 15, 2019 19:47:21 GMT -5
Cheaper if you already own gobs of blank media and dvd writer? Having to buy another drive instantly adds additional cost. If you already have the money sunk into obsolescent tech, why not? But it’s still very inconvenient swapping out a hundred discs to back up a half-terabyte of data. Probably the reason I do Carbonite for my data backups combined with occasional disk images to capture the apps. |
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