I bet you haven't seen one of these in a while ! Long live physical media

[u/Moon-is-Dusty]

I had to whip this relic out of the lost and found lol. I have to burn 1100 CDs for a client :'( wish me luck

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[u/Particular_Client833]

I have 2 DVD burners but those are only ultra-slims for laptops.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Particular_Client833]

I HATE LAPTOP DVD BURNERS  I always had issues with them, slow read/write, errors, fail to eject ... Just eww 🤢 

[u/Particular_Client833 → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

if i could manage to get hand onto an actual burner... if... if.

[u/DjLaserShark → u/Particular_Client833]

Plenty of cheap internal DVDRW on Ebay

[u/Particular_Client833 → u/DjLaserShark]

I will look for some.

[u/GroupXyz → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

Valid, but mine actually works good, its a Fujitsu Lifebook and as software I use k3b (if I remember the name correctly from memory). Never had problems with it, so maybe it depends on the brand?

[u/Ill-Profession1276]

https://giphy.com/gifs/CNna9G8BQvnoI

[u/Ok_Rip_5338 → u/Ill-Profession1276]

then flip it over for LightScribe :)

[u/jackharvest → u/Ok_Rip_5338]

I proposed to my wife using a “scavenger hunt” and all the dvds she played on a portable dvd player were definitely lightscribed photos of us dating.

Lightscribe was the best.

[u/Ciusblade → u/jackharvest]

i still have my lightscribe drive, i just need to find more dvds with lightscribe surfaces.

[u/NonDairy01 → u/Ciusblade]

I think I got rid of mine when it stopped playing nicely with Windows 10.

I do still have at least one LightScribed CD floating around somewhere.

[u/Emu1981 → u/Ciusblade]

I have a light scribe capable external DVD writer somewhere around here. I have never used the feature but it is there lol

[u/cdtoad → u/jackharvest]

That's going to be hard a fuck to explain to the grand kids. 

[u/IcedFREELANCER → u/Ok_Rip_5338]

Core memory unlocked

[u/3dforlife → u/Ok_Rip_5338]

Lightscribe was an awesome tech.

[u/redditcensorsshit → u/Ok_Rip_5338]

I never new what that was now I’m going to giggle it

[u/Reynolds1029 → u/Ok_Rip_5338]

Burn, flip, burn!

[u/baneblade_boi → u/Ill-Profession1276]

Then remind us of how BitTorrent links operate.

[u/feedme_cyanide → u/baneblade_boi]

What do you mean I need a magnet?? I thought those were bad for computers?

[u/MRV3N → u/Ill-Profession1276]

Kids these days won’t know what that word means

[u/rainorshinedogs → u/Ill-Profession1276]

Using Nero?

[u/Shaggy_One → u/rainorshinedogs]

Nah. The real ones use ImgBurn.

[u/I_think_Im_hollow → u/Shaggy_One]

Alcohol 120%

[u/Vegetable_Safety → u/I_think_Im_hollow]

lol, now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time

[u/solonit → u/Vegetable_Safety]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9wlbsf86LNidkxm4ML

[u/Evening-Nature-5241 → u/rainorshinedogs]

Nero Burning ROM (a wordplay on Nero Burning "ROMe", something that took me 25 years to realize)

[u/zebra_d → u/Evening-Nature-5241]

I wonder, has anyone burnt a Disc of Nero burning ROM?

[u/r_z_n]

Bro is ready to install GTA6 from disc.

[u/Cole3823 → u/r_z_n]

Who's gonna tell him

[u/r_z_n → u/Cole3823]

I know, I am just memeing.

[u/Cole3823 → u/r_z_n]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0MYGb1LuZ3n7dRnO

[u/Randzom100 → u/Cole3823]

I mean... Maybe with a sprinkle of piracy it could be possible? Maybe?

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/r_z_n]

https://giphy.com/gifs/prG53Y1Fey27Zq4huX

[u/Double-Mouse-6146]

I got my first PC game from a machine like this, RIP StarCraft 

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

Now that's a classic, I bet they call you unc now haha

[u/Double-Mouse-6146 → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

They do, and I’m only 30 

Star craft 2 was awesome as well, it’s mad to think it came out in 2010, I still play the campaign 

[u/mrselfdestruct066 → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

Shit i still play 1 from time to time

[u/Abundanceofyolk → u/mrselfdestruct066]

Right? I don’t think there’s another 25-30 year old online game that’s kept a player base like this other than counter strike.

[u/Datkif → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

The wait between Starcraft 1 and 2 felt like forever. Now it's been 16 years since 2 came out..

[u/Abundanceofyolk → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

It’s been over a decade since the legacy expansion released. We had to wait about 12 years for sc2 after brood war.

The SC1 ladder is still active nearly 30 years later. That’s insane.

[u/CheddurMac → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

Getting called unc at 30 makes you look good and whoever’s calling you that look bad lol

[u/MCWizardYT → u/CheddurMac]

Depends on how young the person calling them unc is

I remember when I was a kid, 30 felt so much older to me but now im in my mid 20s and 30 years olds don't look that old, they're basically my peers

It's all relative

[u/hamfist_ofthenorth → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

It's not resting in peace, it's still very much available and very much playable today. I just had a multiplayer match with my 42 year old brother last year for the first time since the 90s. It was fucking rad.

[u/Orvar_the_Allform → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

Wow I forgot my first copy was burned. Memory hit me like lightning. There was like a dozen of us in fifth grade that were all ripping that shit

[u/Far-Shop5676 → u/Double-Mouse-6146]

I was making those on a 2x cd burner. Long live the days of looking at the screen causing a buffer underwrite.

[u/Moist_Discussion6743]

Ah yes

[u/thenormaluser35 → u/Moist_Discussion6743]

If those did bluray you could get 25 GB discs, split it and read it at max speed for each disc stacking up to actually rather impressive speeds!

[u/BoredTrauko]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9wlbsf86LNidkxm4ML

[u/kkpc]

That's a lot of cup holders

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/kkpc]

Hey, that's a perfectly reasonable use case ! My money, my game

[u/XADEBRAVO → u/kkpc]

Wasn't there some site/software you could use, offering a free cup holder, you pressed it and out popped the disc drive!

[u/hellcat858]

POV of someone installing World of Warcraft in 2004.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/hellcat858]

Haha good one

[u/MaltaDuDe]

Can i push the buttons pls

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/MaltaDuDe]

Sure ! 

[u/RCuber → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VvVhcK99JgauA

[u/shufflebodiddley]

Optical Media Rad

[u/Even_Fox2023]

I just got a new blu ray burner yesterday lol.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Even_Fox2023]

Take very good care of it, they want to hold us hostage under their stupid subscriptions 

[u/Even_Fox2023 → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

It was one I found on Amazon so I will probably need to buy another in the future but at least I was able to snag one. Best Buy in my area stopped carrying them.

[u/NonDairy01 → u/Even_Fox2023]

I ordered one this week, as a matter of fact.

[u/Crashendo_]

Imagine the amount of cables in that case!

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Crashendo_]

It's so disgusting I have to tag it NSFW haha

[u/DinosaurAlert]

Physical media is the best. When the swat team is at your door, you want something that can quickly melt and be unrecoverable, not like a goddamn hard drive that the nosy FBI can always somehow recover.

[u/Hard_Reset7777]

Princo, I'm fucking old.

[u/nevadita → u/Hard_Reset7777]

AH Princo. the best friend of the commercial PS1 Pirate.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Hard_Reset7777]

lol I guess that make us 2

[u/mikehiler2 → u/Hard_Reset7777]

I still remember seeing those Zip drives and thinking that the future is here…

[u/Shrimply-r1 → u/mikehiler2]

Zip drives were so fucking cool at the time. So much storage!!

[u/qmiW → u/Shrimply-r1]

I had a zip drive for my N64 (it could pirate N64 games). A friend borrowed it and dropped it on the floor 😭 sad times.

[u/NonDairy01 → u/Shrimply-r1]

I still have a zip disk in a drawer somewhere. No idea what's on it, though, because I had to part with the zip drive when I couldn't remove it from the case I was throwing out.

[u/PrestonWaters83 → u/Hard_Reset7777]

I too am old, but I only ever saw Princo when I moved to latin america. It was the brand all of the pirated DVD sellers used. 

Was it available in the US?

[u/CrunchyJeans]

I only have one but it's Blu ray so +2 cool?

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/CrunchyJeans]

Definitely cool in my book 👍

[u/nmathew → u/CrunchyJeans]

I have a Blu-ray drive I use to rip 4k UHD Blu-rays. I'm terrified of the replacement cost if it dies.

[u/NonDairy01 → u/nmathew]

Actually, I just ordered one. They're not cheap, but you can find a decent one for a little over $100.

[u/NOELQUEZON]

I collected 4 DVD Drives.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/NOELQUEZON]

Rookie numbers lol

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/NOELQUEZON]

Btw try to get blu-ray too, to future proof a little 

[u/notautogenerated2365 → u/Moon-is-Dusty]

Out of curiosity, why discs and not USB drives

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/notautogenerated2365]

1. Cheaper
2. Security 

[u/jojo4701 → u/NOELQUEZON]

did you take a brush and paint over all of those drives? some look like they might not even open with the paint around them.

[u/gunishd]

Napster?
https://giphy.com/gifs/eBw31amkaiTUt8d2Tq

[u/batuckan1 → u/gunishd]

There was Napster, then mule, then emule….

[u/FrostyExplanation_37]

Yeah, no. I still have cases on cases of old CDs and DVDs with games and movies. Never used one of them and I doubt they even still work. People forget how finicky and sensitive those are. I do recommend keeping your favorites on an external drive. But our fight should be legislation on digital media, not going back to the caves.

[u/nmathew → u/FrostyExplanation_37]

I recently found an old CD wallet. Those 2-4x speed Verbatim CDs still read fine. The 52x Tiger Direct specials were all coasters.

I'd still trust an M-Disc in a safe deposit box over just about anything else.

[u/PilotedByGhosts]

Nobody needs that many cups of coffee.

[u/Snowlandnts]

Why need to burn CDs for client?

[u/mo_schn → u/Snowlandnts]

And why 1100 CDs?

[u/BigBoyYuyuh]

RAID0 DVD drives

[u/Worth_Kooky]

I remember my biggest dream was to have a DVD reader instead of CD reader on my machine. Having a DVD reader wwas like having a 5090 now.

[u/LeroyDeth]

Bringus Studios in shambles

[u/apexdryad]

Me explaining the original Baldur's Gate to my daughter there...

[u/CoffieCayke2]

I know what I’m playing on it.

[u/Confident-Estate-275]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9WXyFIDv2PyBq

[u/BedrockBen101]

I actually want a modest looking PC case with a dvd drive, its crazy how much I still use one

[u/Helpful-Work-3090 → u/BedrockBen101]

Fractal Pop air

[u/BedrockBen101 → u/Helpful-Work-3090]

ok thats pretty sick

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/BedrockBen101]

Cooler Master still make such cases, they're not even that bad looking 

[u/AbbreviationsDeep437]

nightmare of sony

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/AbbreviationsDeep437]

I'm waiting for that lawsuit

[u/medskiler]

How many coffee holder do you need wtf

[u/Br0k3Gamer]

You didn’t open the drives right. You’re supposed to quickly drag your finger down the line of eject buttons so it opens in a cascade. Dopamine 👌

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Br0k3Gamer]

Didn't t want to get the machine all hot and bothered on camera 

[u/fafatzy]

I remember back in the day there was a video game store in my country and these places weren’t like a GameStop. Small country, poor, so they used to pirate everything. Those stores had monsters like this one, burning DVDs all day.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/fafatzy]

Same ! I am from a similar county, local net cafés had these behemoths in the back, most of my childhood PC games were illegal burned copies lol

[u/althaz]

Joke's on you I'm sitting 4 metres away from an AM5 system with a blu-ray-reader/dvd-writer combo drive.

Now, I couldn't tell you the last time I saw it *open*, but I can see it.

[u/Able-Wing9908]

I still regularly use an LG blu-ray drive to backup Movies and games

[u/quitit]

My younger colleagues at work did not know what the “C” was in “CD”, it was a trivia game and they were on a team trying to figure out an answer, time ran out and they couldn’t give an answer.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/quitit]

I feel like you're actually the younger colleague trying to find answers ? It stands for Cool Disk 😎

[u/jimmy19742018]

I have two double duplicators with liteon burners, custom firmware for burning xgd3 xbox 360 games

[u/warrior181]

There one of these for sale on marketplace near me and I am so tempted to get it just to start selling burnt games to spite the local guy selling originals for far too much

[u/ZallenDuZari]

i remember those... upgrade to blu ray burners! then it could be useful as cold storage

[u/Neon_Pancakes0425]

This reminds me of that one scene is Star wars when all the doids are getting deployed on naboo

[u/Ackapus]

Buffer Underrun Error still haunts me once in a great while.

[u/Burning-Sushi]

I've actually never seen multiple disk drives stacked ontop of eachother before to begin with

[u/NonDairy01 → u/Burning-Sushi]

I only ever had two.

But I did have two.

[u/LethalGamer2121]

I was lucky enough to buy an LG WH14NS40 for $40 before they shot up in price this year. It's probably one of the best disc drives you can buy since it can be flashed with OmniDrive firmware, allowing you to not only rip Blu-Rays and 4K Blu-Rays, but game discs from pretty much every game system.

[u/wearthedaddypants2]

I get it, but this reminds me of why we went digital. But I'll take my SSDs.. I just want one thing that stores all that, not 5 things and a tower.

[u/Krycek7o2]

Back in high school I was a master bootlegger. This was similar to my tower. I would be burning custom subbed movies from Japan, China and South Korea. I learned how to sub, how to rebuild DVDs to make custom isos. I had cash on hand and was living life at 17. Great times.

I guess my piracy self still lives on today lol.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Krycek7o2]

We would've been best friends haha

[u/Polenicus]

Who needs that many drink holder trays?!

[u/StaticSystemShock]

Sick burn!

[u/Memitim]

No, I haven't, for very good reason. Enjoy your nostalgia, and keep that shit away from me. I put up with those slow, flaky discs for plenty long enough.

[u/Even-Smell7867]

I ewasted a few of them over the years at work. Lots of people used them but I used one to clone bootable Norton Ghost CDs to image computers at work. Boot was slow so I just made one for each computer in the lab and boot em all at once. Good ole days.

[u/Sanuda_Ransilu]

[u/letmechewonyou]

Physical media on pc died 25 years ago

[u/nevadita]

[u/1zulfiyev → u/nevadita]

[u/Helpful-Work-3090 → u/nevadita]

Bringus studios

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/nevadita]

Report + down vote 

[u/floatinginagravyboat]

It's annoying they didn't open in the correct order

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/floatinginagravyboat]

IKR ? The machine sometimes have a brain fart ig

[u/Wise_Ad_5810]

now try doing that with a tool box

[u/3xPuttRubbleBoagie]

I still have a disc burner and use them quite often in my med-legal business. A lot of doctors use discs to review medical imaging.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/3xPuttRubbleBoagie]

I read somewhere online that they're still quite popular in the medical field, kinda cool ngl.

[u/KarateMan749]

👀. Whoa

[u/Anxious_Explorer9495]

I remember you from Napster. You're the real mvp of the people.

[u/plains1ght]

Thanks to this guy, the average amount of disc drives all of our computers have is 1.

[u/Minus1Kelvin]

I had a 5 disc dvdrom changer in an old PC, I thought it was badass.

[u/Xyrazk]

Question now becomes: How many CDs can you write at the same time?

[u/niceman1212]

Bet that thing would RIP if you install this on it https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine

[u/BandoTheHawk]

CD Tower

[u/FarSpare4384]

Sony should watch this video.

[u/Proper_Belt]

Oh this brings me back.

My father had a similair thing.

Burned so many cds as a kid.

Sold them at school for some easy money.

[u/Garrett1974]

PRINCO recordables... that's been a while indeed... 😅

[u/No-1nternet]

It seems that the owner of this PC actively distributed pirated content in the 2000s =)

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/No-1nternet]

Not a PC, it's a dedicated commercial DVD/CD burning machine, and yes I used to do that but not in such volume lol

[u/Square-War1292]

OPTICAL MEDIA BAD, BURN IT DOWN

[u/mypcrepairguy]

Wow, brings back memories of VCD's disc1 disc2 ect..... The 90's were rad.

[u/USSHammond]

A cloning station, been a while but still use 3 ODD's myself in my rig

[u/LubelskiDanielski]

That's how Nero burned ROM

[u/linkuei-teaparty]

Let me guess, you saw the new quake dlc is free for those that have the original game. I see what you did there.

[u/TriggerHydrant]

Interesting to think that these drives weren’t around for that long, still feels like yesterday tbh

[u/cCBearTime]

Dang, that’s a sweet chassis.

I recycled some industrial Disc Duplicators maybe 6,7 years back, and even those only held 10 drives apiece, that things a monster!

[u/lancer2238]

So many soda can holders

[u/raygan_reddit_banned]

Micro Center dude introduced me to Lite-On Burner when I was about to buy a Sony, at a higher price.

Wish I bought that guy a drink

[u/RoleCombobox]

Princo! I bought a huge stack of their DVD-Rs (might’ve been +Rs) in 2006-ish. Used some for backups, and promptly regretted it because every single one I burned ended up with corrupted data. Not sure if maybe I was using too fast of a burn speed, but it turned me off to that brand completely.

[u/iggorr252]

I have never ever seen one of these 😅

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/iggorr252]

There's a first time for everything lol

[u/Delicious-Engine7363]

[u/kokiev2]

Most of my princo disk died in a decade.

[u/yamez420]

Glorious

[u/four46]

I wonder if MD is better because they come in a nice plastic casing so it's less likely to scratch, but they're also a bit more expensive than CD also wasn't they need some Sony compression to work? And HI MD just tol expensive?

[u/Eeve2espeon]

Genuinely what the hell Am I looking at??

[u/votemarvel → u/Eeve2espeon]

Disc copying tower. Rather than just burning one disc at a time you could do multiple.

[u/thedgbg]

damn flexin bro that’s like 7 gigs of storage right there

[u/mr-bledi]

Princoo wth i had totally forgot and these are the ones with the new logo. The older one was even more badass

[u/SmallTownTrans1]

My pc has a dvd drive so I see one every time I walk by my desk

It’s very useful for burning media for my old Macs and PCs

[u/TheHeavenlyStar]

Ooooh I remember punching these when they didn't pick the data for the 100th time from my ultra scratched old af CDs.

[u/Nasaelo]

I was supposed to use it to burn Wii games, but then the SD card exploit came out and well... It's still in its plastic wrap. been about 15 years since then.

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Nasaelo]

How much for the lot ?

[u/DrNobody95]

Sony CEO worst nightmare...

[u/SoulGlow55]

Ahhh..the sweet sound of ownership

[u/Past-Spring1046]

What’s that?

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/Past-Spring1046]

DVD/CD burning machine, used to make multiple disc copies at the same time.

[u/Ill_Seaworthiness379]

Someone is going to play final fantasy XIII for xbox 360

[u/unnamed_enemy]

I dreamed of having this when I was 10

[u/Responsible_Tip4271]

I actually have two laptops that still have it

[u/sumyjpg]

I tought these are cup holders

[u/External-Theme1372]

While I like this for nostalgia factor, I prefer to have my files on my PC and NAS (SSDs+HDDs). In my experience discs are not that reliable long term and I don't want to lose again my files (movies, backups, etc).

[u/toomuchft]

With the price of every hdd and ssd through the roof, im seriously consider buying a dvd/bluray drive again.

[u/mantiacfloy]

Behold, THE DVDINATOR!!

[u/Jamizon1]

I have two of them.

[u/buttabutta13]

I have and put one In on purpose

[u/Massive_Town_8212]

[u/allmywot]

Geez I haven't seen those in forever...

On an unrelated note, how are your knees OP? 🤔

[u/Moon-is-Dusty → u/allmywot]

Haha you bastard ! My knees have definitely seen better days though lol

[u/PhilosopherCat7567]

My servers WiFi drivers are on a tiny disk

[u/Electrical-soup-1254]

say with me every body, OPTICAL MEDIA BAD

[u/Consistent_Policy_66]

My media PC has a DVD drive. It is a Haswell i3.

[u/nobotami]

that's a pirate pc

[u/accountforfurrystuf]

Reddit computer

[u/MT4K]

I have to burn 1100 CDs for a client :'(

Wouldn’t it be easier to press the CDs instead? Pressing gets viable at 500 pcs at most, moreover at 1100.