I must be one of the few on here who still use an optical drive. My blu-ray burner gets used for totally legal and legitimate backup purposes.
It's crossed my mind to get a Bluray burner for long term backups of important/archive stuff, but the media is so expensive, it's cheaper to just store on spinning disks, and also have copies on cold disks. LTO tapes have also crossed my mind, they are cheaper (per GB) but the drives are super expensive. I always end up going back to just hard drives.
if so, how much did they cost? did you get one?
Yeah I can't even remember the last time I burned a cd or even a dvd. I know it has to be at least 4+ years ago because that is when I built my 6700K system from the ground up and I chose a case that didn't have any front drive bays. I remember looking at my Phenom2 build with a cd/dvd burner in it and thinking "I haven't used this thing in so long does my new build really need one?" At the time my father in law gave me shit for skipping it but honestly I don't miss it.Double necro.
Those are rare.
Adding to the thread: I havent burned a CD in many years. It was a compilation album for a friend who had a CD player in her car.
LOL, you know it! Verb. dark azo blues ftw.Each successful burn a gift from the gods.