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I bought a cheap USB DVD burner for this reason. I don't expect to read a lot of optical discs, but they are something that is easy to deploy when using old com
by devilbunny 2y ago
I bought a cheap USB DVD burner for this reason. I don't expect to read a lot of optical discs, but they are something that is easy to deploy when using old computers that can't USB boot, and it was only about $25.
This is one of the cases that a magneto-optical system like MiniDisc excels at. It's not fast (though, if it had been financially viable for Sony, who knows what it would look like now), but it's far more persistent than CD/DVD-R's, because there's no dye to break down - it's just physics. My audio MiniDiscs are as good today as they were when I recorded them 20 years ago.