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[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 months ago
[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had one of those beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Probably still have it somewhere among the dust.

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999... it sucked)

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Error: Buffer Underrun

Frisbee time!!! Wheeee!

This is the reason I haven't thought too hard on bluray discs... $5 to $11 per disc...

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Have you actually had an issue with buffer underruns with blurays though? I'd figure reliability should be way up, considering we now have multi-core CPUs, plus writers probably support variable speed writing that slows the write if the buffer is running out of data, plus error correction/recovery options for if it happens anyways. I'd guess vibrations, low quality discs, and loss of power would be more likely to cause a write failure than a buffer underrun these days, but maybe I have too much faith in those involved.

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe you're right. I've never tried burning blurays. The cost and error possibility just leaned me into using hard drives for storage. They last longer, are less likely to damage, and far cheaper. Even a used drive still has a few hundred thousand writes left, usually.

[-] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I remember the smell of a new pack of discs.

[-] rbn@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.

Congrats, you win! 🥳

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Does it click?

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Could be a zipdisk! Those where up to what 750megs?

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