pendell

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.



Do I want to spend $10 on 5 DVD+R discs in a plastic shell that will become useless the moment I open it, forcing to me to either use all of the discs at once or store the blank ones precariously...

Or do I want to spend $10 on 25 DVD+R discs that come on a reusable spindle that I can open and close at any time to retrieve a new disc when needed?

The hard questions faced by the modern customer...


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In all seriousness, if you want to know what the hell that - vs + thing is about, Technology Connections had a great video about it. Basically some companies threw a tantrum and made their own separate DVD burning standard that worked just different enough to be incompatible with other drives on the market. Fortunately we're past it mattering since every drive made in the past 15 years supports both standards, but the discs themselves are still manufactured differently.

https://youtu.be/e1mJv9pxm7M

it looks like those are two different singles for $10, and the only difference is how many spares you get /s

Presuming Maxell's guess is that either way you have a destination storage location for whatever you're burning, although putting blanks in sleeves or jewel cases is admittedly really hilarious, I don't see why you couldn't.

That said, I'm genuinely curious as to what sales on these are like.

Now if only DVD-RAM discs were still being made...

I've got some Memorex -RW's on one of those 25-disc spindles, given by a friend long ago. I would never personally have a need to buy that many rewritable DVDs. Rewritable CDs, I use all the time for burning copies of recovery/backup software and old operating systems and software, but most things I could conceivably need on a DVD would run just fine - and faster - off a USB stick.

My dad bought be a 3-pack of Maxwell -RW's just like the ones in that image (yellow disc face for inconceivable reasons) but they came individually jewel-cased. He bought that pack for me like ten years ago and since then I've just been reusing one of them over and over again. It still reads and writes perfectly, and I never have a need for more than one DVD-RW at a time, so I've no reason to use any of the others until this one starts throwing errors lol.

And I love DVD-RAM. Currently buying some discs of various makes, and someone on eBay offered one of the Panasonic cartridge-loading drives for only $41... So I've got that on order.

Oh yeah, I used to buy DVD-RWs in semi-bulk, I had like 50 or so of 'em, was using 'em for full-system backups and as more frequent backups for a system I was using for my photos where I organized all of my photos sequentially by capture date into 4.0-gig buckets, because, lol.

(I burned a full yearly set of those folders onto DVD-R for a few years and then gave up entirely for "reasons" (laziness))