When is the last time you burnt a CD or DVD for personal use.

[DesiPower]

Last week. Still use burned CD's quite a bit actually.

To do what?

 

[rh71]

I burned my wife's workout DVD for a friend recently.

Before that I burned some MP3s onto a disc to play in my wife's car, which I had also done for my car. I don't like the aux input thing because it requires me to pull out my phone every drive and play with it to hunt for songs. Doing it via a CD listing on the car's screen is easier and safer (controller on the console). Sure I don't get to see my entire music collection, but I still have over 100 of my fav songs on the disc.

 

[MYAL]

Last week i made backup of personal folder which is not more then 400MB

 

[ImpulsE69]

To do what?

Burn down wav files to transfer to an ancient G5 protools rig that isn't connected to the internet. It's annoying but eh.

 

[mikeymikec]

Didn't we have this thread about a month ago?

- edit - Yup:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2429096&highlight=

To answer the OP's question, about a month ago, secondary backups.

 

[TheELF]

What is this see - dee you speaketh of...
Yea, I got some disks left over collecting dust in some corner, I don't even have an optical drive in my current build.
Also microsoft made it very easy to install windows from usb they even released a tool to make it even easier.
Basically all you have to do is partition a usb make it primary and bootable and copy all the files over.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

 

[motsm]

Lets see, off the top of my head...

I burned a DVD titled "Audio Backup" on 7/15/2009 at 11:09 PM. It is 2,584,875,008 bytes, made up of 3,941 files, that are primarily .wav, organized into 397 folders. Said .wav files contain acoustic and hardware impulse responses that I either purchased, or downloaded from the internet. The remaining files are images, which help identify the location the impulse response was recorded.

 

[Linflas]

My most frequent use of them is to get network/usb drivers onto new builds when those devices are not recognized by the install.

 

[Anubis]

CD - last week
DVD - sometime this year
DL-BR - many in the past 6 months

 

[blankslate]

Years ago. for non-personal use; a few months ago to share a few gigs of photos and video with family members.

....

 

[purbeast0]

3+ years. last dvd i burnt was probably some xbox360 game. but since i don't do the pirate stuff anymore, at least 3 years.

 

[Eug]

I would do it much more often for sneakernet of large files (eg. over 20 MB, which we deal with a lot) but the IT dept at my workplace has clamped down hard on security issues. They've installed software on all the PCs to prevent writing to CD/DVD, to prevent sensitive info from leaving the workplace. The machines will read CD/DVDs just fine though.

I'm using an encrypted USB stick now, but that is not ideal, since it's not as if I'm going to be giving expensive encrypted USB drives to colleagues or whatever. I now take the encrypted USB stick to another machine (eg. personal laptop that isn't a workplace machine) and then download the files there, and then transfer them either to another cheap unencrypted USB stick that I'm willing to lend out or else burn a disc from there.

BTW, I would use BD-Rs at home much more often for periodic backups of my most important info, but high quality media is still too expensive.

 

[Wuzup101]

I think the drive in my tower is just a BR player (I used to have that and a burner but I'm not sure where the burner went lol). In any case, I haven't used it, or any other optical drive for anything in recent memory.

I have at least a spindle of DVD-R's and CD-R's under my desk collecting dust. I should probably put them up on craig's list.

 

[TheSlamma]

I make music CD's for my 2007 corolla all the time. Wish mine played MP3/WMA like my wife's Fit does but oh well, not gonna retire by 50 buying too much BS

 

[DigDog]

about ... let me think ... 3 years ago? something between 3 and 4. and it was just 1 disk, haven't burned anything before that for years.

 

[JEDI]

Back in the days when hard drive space was relatively expensive and I my financial situation was more humble, I would back up my stuff on CDs, then came the DVDs and I used them for backup. I would also burn music for the car. Then came the MP3 players and cars with AUX or USB ports. Burning music CDs was over, Spindles of CDs started collecting dust. DVD was still in use, HDD cost still would not make sense to store all my collection of movies and games. Then games started becoming available online downloads and HDD prices were in free fall, currently I am sitting on 4 4TB hdds and disk space will never be an issue again, network bandwidth also played a role and so now spindles of DVDs are collecting dust. Even BRDs don't make sense, but I did burn a couple for the experience.
They only reason now I use DVDs is to burn OS, Microsoft OS, Linux can be done on UBS drives. Once MS makes OS installation through USB more easy I dont think I will burn a DVD ever again.

What about you, when did you burn your last DVD/CD? how often do you do it and why?

last decade.
still have a backup dvd burner sitting in the original box.
and like 200 blank dvds

haven't burned ANYTHING since last decade because of 8+ gig flash drives.

my main use of dvd's was to burn WinXp/Win7 install images incase I need to wipe/reinstall.
because of Win7 sp1, images are now larger than 4gigs so no longer fits on dvd.

 

[Capt Caveman]

A couple of months ago burned several CDs of recent xrays to provide to different medical specialist. Cheaper than giving away usb drives.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Last year I burned the camcorder memory card contents to DVD. I do that every few months when the SD Card fills up. Last year I think I burned an ISO of Ubuntu to CD.

 

[Aharami]

i havent burnt one for personal use in a really long time

 

[Imp]

Five years ago because mom's car only had a CD player.

 

[mikeford]

I'm planning on burning a bunch soon, moving some files to a more or less permanent offline storage. I collected up a ton of Karaoke files and ended up not doing anything with them and they clog up searches, so sorting and burning them to DVD. Other similar.

Burn to disc is still the way to give info, share music etc with tech challenged.