Comment on Disc drive needed
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Still doing it today. Its not an old thing. I have hundreds of Cds. Best form of physical media for me.
Especially with insanity HDD costs. I did the math, and while ridiculous, buying blank DVDs vs a 12 tb hard drive is only minimally more expensive and discs last longer. HDDs die all the time.
Obviously I still use drives but disks are definitely viable especially as data centers continue to ruin everything.
dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
used to have a bunch of DVDs with my favourite shows. but I kept them on a spindle and didn’t look at them for years, only to find out they had all become unreadable
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I keep hearing this but Ive yet to find an unreadable disk. I think they are way more robust than most think. Same with vhs. Never had an issue even after being stores in non climate controlled storages for years.
dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
maybe if you store them better than I did they dont become unreadable son quickly. personally I’ve sadly not much luck with them. Thankfully it did push me to find new encodes of the shows and I got much better quality replacements for most of them
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Yeah idk. Burned CDs can go bad easier ofc and theyre harder on lasers than factory made