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What is up with optical drives these days?
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How does one currently find out what can rip and burn exceptionally well and isn't likely to fall apart? Is there even a rule of thumb to go by, like with HDDs? (Seagate currently bad, WD currently awesome except for that one turd model). Is the choice even important any more, or hav we reached the point where there is only universal garbage being churned out as the medium obsoletes?
Plextor stopped making their own stuff in 2007 and I've noticed it's difficult to get clear answers on which drive(s) seem to be ahead of the pack.
I know optical drives are less and less relevant, but I still need one at least for much of my PC game collection, to burn expendable copies of CD for travel, and it's also handy as a cheap backup device. Quality of rips and burns is important, but I'm not really finding answers on that as easily as I used to.
Help?
Plextor stopped making their own stuff in 2007 and I've noticed it's difficult to get clear answers on which drive(s) seem to be ahead of the pack.
I know optical drives are less and less relevant, but I still need one at least for much of my PC game collection, to burn expendable copies of CD for travel, and it's also handy as a cheap backup device. Quality of rips and burns is important, but I'm not really finding answers on that as easily as I used to.
Help?
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If for computer stuff i'd just go the route of using DVD-R's, that way you can get more stored.
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My own experience agrees with Peregrine's.
Personally I only ever use it to burn Windows DVDs, everything else just sits on my hard drives
Yes a plastic disc has some physical weaknesses as well, but it's a much more reliable long term storage solution.
That said, the cd/dvd drives themselves seem to have become ridiculously shoddy the past few years. I feel lucky to have one last two years. It's good they only cost twenty bucks because I'd be pissed if I was paying more.
I love it when people claim this. So you are claiming that companies purposely wasted money by spending more on manufacturing in the past, then they do now? Having worked for an OEM I can confidently call bullshit. Manufacturers are constantly looking for efficiency and cost cutting measures. I have a 5 year old lite-on cdrw that still works fine, and a dvdrw I just bought 6 months ago. That $30 dvdrw has burned 480 dvds so far and still works fine.
I barely ever use it anymore so I wouldn't be surprised if the next one I buy ends up being the last
Not if you store it
Pfft, and what happens when there's a fire. A chisel and stone is much more trustworthy media.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
well, but fires aside, no kind of magnetic or optical disk comes close to microficheing. Ask the newspapers. Future generations are really fucked, they're gonna have no idea about what happened in their past after the hardcopy newspapers die.
We're already fucked concerning older computer backup tapes and floppies.
"who is this sarah palin bitch and what the fuck is modern warfare? why did these people etch this information into a sheet of titanium?"
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I'm sure Pericles thought the same thing about his administration.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
The message would actually be written on a real wall too.
That was the aim.. although i'm glad no smart arse has noticed the obvious flaw in my joke. Being that during that period of time forms of writing upon and messages were put on vellum not stone.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Any kind of backup requires essentially constant vigilance to stay intact; it's right there in the second law of thermodynamics.
Sifting through everything to find actual useful information may prove more of an issue.