Does anyone still burn optical disks?

You’re not too bright.

>USB bullshit
Whats hard about plugging a flash card in

fastest way to destroy tape data is with a powerful magnet
fastest way to destroy cd data is to strip the top layer off the disc

do you always have a powerful magnet nearby?
you can scratch the shit out of the top of a cd with any sharp or abrasive object

Polycarbonate disks. Indistructable. The stuff they make riot shield and plane window from. Tape tangles and your fucked, it can be destoyed by bar magnet, and burns easily.
> high security uses cd
> tape used by weirdos and hipsters

You can damage the surface of tape. Its just metal-oxide glued to plastic. You can easily damage that (even your nail). This is why cassets sound terrible.

Only to burn ps1 games.

i take images of my linux from scratch based build with clonezilla and save them to my backup drive and i also burn it to a dvd if i make a drastic change in the system since i've been using it for a long time now and i don't want it to disappear into the voide with a single swing to the hdd's.

CDs are cast differently to resist rotational forces. Not that they aren't tough, but comparing them to riot shields is a bit much.

>just scratch the tape surface
really? you know tapes are really long, right?

>high security uses cd
>source: your ass

Only pedos

They don't burn very well.

BD-Rs and even DVD-Rs are still pretty useful for long term storage and duplicate backups. Cheaper than HDDs or flash drives, and lasts longer too.

thanks for reminding me i still have a ton of anime cds and dvds under my bed at my moms house

hope she doesn't find it

I still have a BD-RE drive and a bunch of DVD-R(W)s and BD-R(E)s but I really don't know what I'd use them for.

I was actually about to get a blu ray drive for archiving.

Yes.
Installation distros, recovery images, snapshotting on blurays, backing up physical CDs I have to prevent wear.

occasionally

I want to burn a music cd for a girl I like and give it to her on her bday or at end of the semester, is that creepy?

i have a partial stack of cd-r and dvd-r that been sitting for several years, i might burn one a year,

since i am a GNU/Linux fanboy i use usb thumbdrives to copy ISOs to for boot-install media, and the thumbdrives are re-writable so i can use them again

Yes
Fucking pirated music
On a CD
That you burned yourself

That's both retarted and creepy. Better give her some perfume or shit she actually wants and needs.

jesus fuck that's cheesy.

For security reasons

I had to make an xp disk recently other than that not in years

people these days just share playlists on spotify or some other streaming site. just give her a more traditional gift, if she doesn't already know your into her don't make it too "romantic" but make sure it's clearly a sign of affection

>cassets sound terrible.
Well apart from that not being remotely true, the reason YOUR cassettes sounded terrible is because you used a ching-chong-nip-nong deck with the cheapest tapes available and don't know the first thing about maintaining the head gap or adjusting azimuth.

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but I have already compiled and collected stuff that I want to give her, its going to be music cd and its final
also we aren't friends its just she has been assigned together with me in a project so I am just gonna "it was fun working with you so here a token of my appreciation" *gives music cd* that will make her fall in love with me.
you niggas can't stop me

woah there casanova. turn down the romance a notch eh?

>its going to be music cd and its final
Final nail to the coffin of your hypothetical relationships

If you like her, invite her somewhere, doesn't matter where, even for a walk in a park. You want to talk to her and get to know each other, making gifts in such a manner is almost always creepy or cringy.

I do.
I'm definitely not the data hoarder type but I do use M-disc (both DVD and 25G bluray) for long term storage/backup of shit I do care about.

Some of those discs I keep at home, some are later moved to an offsite location in a remote village where I have a heavy-duty lockable and sealed plastic storage container

yeah I think its better to not do anything, since she's far and live in a dorm and she's kind of a big girl who gets perfect score always,
mind you user we do talk and have chats, I taught her how to use git.
but this is turning more like a blog shit.
so fuck it

onto the topic are dvds with different amount on space also dvds? here we had two kind of dvds one golden with 10gb storage and one regular with 4.7 gb and regular dvd player would be able to read both, if that's the case why there weren't big storage dvd and they directly jumped to bluray

>mind you user we do talk and have chats, I taught her how to use git.

Hard to break it to you, but you'll never get your peepee in her poopoo if that hasn't happened already.

>are dvds with different amount on space also dvds

Yes. Basically, it comes down to the type of laser used.

Yes, because I play with OSes a lot and don't have an unlimited supply of USB drives. Plus I use them to backup my various software installers.

No cause cyber sec is know for being the most transparent industry. Literally every idiot blogger and media shill visits state-department data centers to report how they move data. Jow Forums cant be this retarded. CD dont have malware you cant be fuck up by stuxnet virus. Hardrives have embedded micro controllers and so does flash.

Also no stuxnet malware.

Wrong. They are injection model. Plastics are an isotropic. There are cheap disks where the are accelerators added or uv protection is left out. Generally they are tough.

nah. archival SSDs or bust