What do you use optical discs for?
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Lincoln Parker
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Levi Sullivan
How would you organize a large backup with many discs?
Is there a library software solution or anything like that?
Christian Murphy
Can MDISC drives work well on Linux?
Also which one should buy off the Bezos network?
Hunter Perez
>Can MDISC drives work well on Linux?
I suppose so, regular drives work fine, why wouldn't the ones that support BD/DVD?
Angel Lewis
It's better selecting which files are most important to you and backing up to a 25/50/100 Gb discs. Otherwise winrar can split the archive into nGb blocks, which you can use to archive over 100Gb of files on multiple discs.
Sebastian Davis
I just have bad luck with device purchases and got worried.
Jeremiah Long
Xavier Sullivan
Do they not make DVD9 MDISC? I wanted to backup my DVD collection so I could sell it off.
Ryder Lee
At my university, when a CS student hands in his thesis (bachelor or master), he has to hand in 3 copies on paper (1st and 2nd prof plus one for the archives). And a CD containing his thesis. Total nonsense but it's in the regulations.
CD gets burnt, candidate walks over to the dean's office, they take the paper copies and the CD, put what's on the CD on some server and then trash the CD.
Joseph Myers
I was fine with everything you said until "they trash the CD".
Zachary Miller
Until somebody told me that that's what happens, I also supposed they would store the CD somewhere for eternity, for lawsuits 40 years from now or something. Nope.
The three paper copies make sense, though. One for the first and second reviewer each and one for the archives.
Jordan Howard
>Do they not make DVD9 MDISC?
No they don't seem to make those.
>I wanted to backup my DVD collection so I could sell it off.
How does that work and why specifically M-DISC?
Jaxon Stewart
bump
Luis Ortiz
thanks
John Rogers
Is there an economic way to make quality labels? Ideally printing directly to the disc itself? If not, are stick on labels okay -- I heard they can throw discs off balance if they aren't perfectly centered.
I feel like I looked for a thermal printer a couple months ago but wasn't able to find one that I could buy at a reasonable price. This is just going to be for personal use and maybe for making a small run (~50-100) of CDs to distribute.
Liam Jackson
if its still a thing, you could look into light-scribe
from what i remember it involved flipping the disc upside down and then using the laser it "burnt" your label onto the surface
Matthew King
Thank you. Unfortunately...
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Brandon Sanders
japanese and korean tv shows.
Ayden Cooper
>light-scribe
I highly recommend using LightScribe-enabled drives, I guess you can find them at thrift shops at a good price.
My friend took pic related with many other pictures, so I can post them if you want.
And yes, you burn the image onto the top of the disc, the motto for lightscribe was "Burn, flip, burn".
James Johnson
Thank you, user. I'm good -- I can find a bunch of examples online. Still looking for an alternative where you can print on silver or white.
Ayden Turner
Because I didn't wanna lose data I actually payed for because of muh organic dye.
Eli Perry
My dads old laptop had a litescribe burner. I don't think he ever used it.
Jaxon James
Reminder to use parchive when burning backups.