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What is this connector? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I need to find an adapter for this stupid HD-DVD drive from 2008. Sorry, this is before my time.

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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Unrelated but... having lived through the 00's I always found writable CDs and DVDs to be such a shit unreliable tech. It always seemed like discs might work ok with some drives but not others, or just stop working after a few weeks, and they really didn't seem tolerant to even minor scratches. Just awful.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 9 months ago

    I really only burned Audio CD's and DVD-Video movies. I haven't had any issues. All the ones I've burned still work. Data DVD's, less reliable. I have lost data on those. I burn Blu-ray movies now. I don't think they'll last long.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine. If you bought cheap discs you got what you paid for.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine.

    I've heard this a million times.

    I certainly never bought the cheapest discs. It's been a decade but I think it was verbatim usually.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Verbatim in my experience have consistently been the best of everything they’ve made. Also usually the most expensive so they’re not really what most people will buy, unfortunately. Memorex has been a pretty good mid-range, I’d even put it just below Verbatim. But when people buy these shit TDK stuff… you’re not gonna be happy.

    Anyway these days you can stick what… 2TB yet? on a microSD. I know that discs offer the not subject to magnetic damage but still… they fail after age far earlier than promised when they were sold.

    Fault tolerance is the best for anyone who can afford it. Only way to make sure stuff lasts.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I found that the shiny black chrome looking disks seemed to be better than the purple tint kind. Chemically different media. Its anecdotal, not a scientific tested theory

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