^ I'd LOVE to have a tape drive for archival purposes, but unobtainable for $200 (including the drive cost). It's still the longest lasting storage medium. Optical discs were hyped to take that crown away but the quality was too hit or miss, many CDRs I made back in the day have rotted.
^ I'd LOVE to have a tape drive for archival purposes, but unobtainable for $200 (including the drive cost). It's still the longest lasting storage medium. Optical discs were hyped to take that crown away but the quality was too hit or miss, many CDRs I made back in the day have rotted. - dave_c
I too thought that my old CDR's had rotted away, but it turns out, the problem is modern drives are using Bluray lasers instead of CD/DVD lasers. The Bluray drives make an effort to read CDR's, but they're really only successful on commercially pressed CD-ROM's/DVD's, not the self recordables.
I got a Dell DVD/CDROM drive (with no Bluray support). Lo and behold - every old CDR/DVD-R I had thought were lost forever were fully readable once again.
But anyway, it's still rubbish at 4.7GB per disc compared to a 14TB hard drive.
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I got a Dell DVD/CDROM drive (with no Bluray support). Lo and behold - every old CDR/DVD-R I had thought were lost forever were fully readable once again.
But anyway, it's still rubbish at 4.7GB per disc compared to a 14TB hard drive.
Thank you!