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Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?

Main differences:

CD-R can only be written once
CD-RW is more expensive

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I did not have any miniDiscs but I did have a SuperDisk in a PC I built which was a complete waste of time and money.

The SuperDisk was a waste. Not my whole PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

oh, i remember those. they were like a super-Zip disk right in the era when usb flash drives and early sd cards and CD-Rs and -RWs were just becoming a thing.

i remember they never took off because nobody could quite figure out what to use them for since there were several other overlapping storage media that were emergent at the time which were better suited to their needs (and cheaper).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Seemed like a good idea when I built my PC.

Was not a good idea. Big waste of time and money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I had an IOMega ZIP (the original 100MB one) back in the 90s, connected to my Amiga 1200. Those were definitely not a waste when they first came out. I used to run a BBS back then, and had a drive crash and yeah backup wasn't quite so easy or affordable back then. So I had to rebuild my file library.

I went to a local fellow Sysop with a few zip disks and had a file library back up and running in no time.