500 gig Discs?

  Joyrex said:

  Glass Plate said:

I don't know why waste it on discs though, one scratch ruins it, and that happens so easily. Flash drives and solidstate flash memory cards just make so much more since. I mean we already know SD cards are already replacing discs.

 

Yes, because I just went down to my local record shop and bought the latest Depeche Mode on USB drive.

 

NO

c'mon joyrex... what we are seeing more and more is a disconnect between the medium and the content.

you'll buy a little black thing about the size of a postage stamp/something that looks a lot like a dvd

you'll go home and purchase the beatles/aphex twin/rick astely's back catalogue in lossless and DRM-free from itunes 2012

you'll stick the disc/little black thing in your new sony discman 2012/laptop/ipod/media player/make a million copies and sell them on ebay.ru

i seriously reckon the decreasing size of solid-state storage is gonna become an issue. fuck knows how many microSD's i've lost.

well it doesn't have to be micro, and they make cases, things to put micro sd's in to keep you from losing them.

It only seems right that Raster Noton sells most of its catalogue on SD cards.

one day we'll be able to record large amounts of data on any surface. like on your fingertip or something

weird, glass plate's previous avatar didn't bother my computer at all, and my computer crashes from like watching a youtube video or something

i'm keen to be able to back up my shit some other way than buying another usb hard drive. the one reason this may not be vaporware is that it would sell like hot tamales if the price point was there... i'd be willing to pay $5 a disk, $200 for the burner, that's on par with new usb drives...

i got a terabyte external hard drive right now so i'm set

until it fails in 4-6 years time, anyway

well whatever

im tellin ya, it's all about the sold sate drives, disc drives make me worry a lot more too.

i just bought a 500 tb usb brick full of ge press releases

lol

  kaini said:

until it fails in 4-6 years time, anyway

but if he just uses it to periodically backup his files, it should last almost indefinitely, correct?

that's my plan anyway...