So is there any point in keeping these anymore? What with muh cloud storage, huge USB storage, and even using them as loaders as well.
>storing anything on a cloud
they're good for LiveCDs, OSs, and Programs
flash memory will lose data overtime, cloud services will close down / sell your data to bonzi buddy but a cd unless you scratch it will last you for years and years.
>>53601679
They're durable, fairly cheap, and if you use an erasure code across a couple of them you can get very reliable data storage.
Blurays I'm much less sure about. They cost WAY too much, despite not being new anymore.
I only use them for consoles and systems that don't support USB boot, they're definitely still handy.
Keep password cracks on a couple. Make CD'S for my girlfriend. Romantic shit.
my laptop doesn't like booting off a USB so I use them to install OS's and what not.
>>53601679
I use them as scarecrows. The birds don't like the reflection of the sun when the disks are rotated by wind.
>>53601679
i have 600 pieces of bd-r.
fight me.
>>53601850
what are you smoking?
you can get a 25GB bd-r for 50 cents.
still way cheaper than a hdd, price/gb.
>>53601679
Why do hipsters work themselves into such a lather over this trivial bullshit?
>>53601679
I need the optical drive because i buy music CDs.
Still the only way to give a lot of people a DVD worth of shit cheaply if you don't plan on seeing them again. $15 for 100 or so versus how many 6gb flash drives. But for home or office there's no real point
>>53601679
I have some for OS installers, live cds, core driver backups, ect.
Otherwise everything goes on various hdds.
fucc emulators desu senpai
>>53605365
You mean "memesters".
They'll argue over anything not memey enough
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFloppyDiskMeansSaveAnd14OtherOldPeopleIconsThatDontMakeSenseAnymore.aspx
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/08/why-is-the-save-icon-still-a-floppy-disk/
>>53601679
if you actually want physical media that you can file away in a cabinet instead of a thousand little flash drives to step on
M-disc blurays for long term archival.
Other than that it's deprecated.
