Re: Is an optical burner obsolete now days?
- From: "William R. Walsh" <wm_walsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:03:26 -0800 (PST)
Hi!
Before you get too far with this, I readily admit that "unique" would
be a good way to describe my computing environment.
How many here actually BURN DVDs or CDs now days?
I do, and I do so very often. Many of my optical discs are rewritable,
and as such, they get rewritten very often when I need to use one for
a different purpose. It's hard to beat the price, especially for discs
that you give away.
I also still use diskettes very often. Where I used to make sure that
all my computers had floppy drives, it's come to the point where a few
do not simply because the case makes it impossible or the motherboard
lacks the connector. For them I keep a USB floppy drive handy,
although it does not come out all that often.
Perhaps the most used medium of exchange that I have between computers
is the network that links them. I don't have any computers that are
not members of the network in some capacity. I have a couple of
servers used for various things and one network attached storage
device.
Of course, having multiple generations of computer technology (386 and
up PCs, 68K, PPC and Intel Macintoshes, RS/6000, Linux) in operation
means that one medium won't do it for data transfer between systems.
The lowly 3.5" high density floppy diskette probably comes the closest
of anything to being a common denominator across all of these systems.
(I have a very few systems with 2.88MB floppy drives. These are
*sweet* when I'm using one and find something that won't fit on a 1.44
diskette by just a little bit.)
I'm starting to think that as cheap as flash memory and
hard drives are getting that having a "burner" is a
waste of money.
I have yet to prepare a bootable USB key. The systems I have that can
even boot from a USB device all have floppy or optical drives. This
may change with my recent acquisition of a netbook.
I have more external hard drive enclosures than I can shake a stick
at, but those aren't set up to be bootable either. I use them
primarily when I go offsite to work on a customer's computer and find
that I need a safe place to stash their data while I work on another
problem or perform an upgrade that would require moving their data
temporarily out of the picture.
William
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