> I miss putting in a disk, hearing the drive spin up, my computer coming to life and working away. I still use optical media once in a while. I've got quite a

> I miss putting in a disk, hearing the drive spin up, my computer coming to life and working away. I still use optical media once in a while. I've got quite a collection of readers, stacked on a shelf in the garage. And a few discs with data on them and a stash of empty discs waiting to be burned. If you miss it, just buy an external Blu-ray writer. 25 to, what, 100 GB per disk is not too bad for the really important stuff. They're not mutually exclusive with other forms of backups.