Hardware Your OLDEST READABLE burned CD/DVD

[Alexander1970]

I would like someone that have a no-name cd try and read it. Those bastards died so fast it was silly. That is just a more or less silver disc with no press on the top of it.

From 2005/MEDIA MARKT - horrible Quality.
4/10 goes to the bin after burning.

I´ve tried it at the moment but the "noise" is not funny.....poor DVD Drive.

 

[Deleted_413010]

Yeah but people collect these things.

If that's weird then I assume me being a Microsoft Collector is weird. I collect unleaked Microsoft betas.

 

[linuxares]

From 2005/MEDIA MARKT - horrible Quality.
4/10 goes to the bin after burning.

I´ve tried it at the moment but the "noise" is not funny.....poor DVD Drive.

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oof looks like a no name brand disc yeah... I remember like every second copy you made with those no name disc ones, you had to throw and do a new burn. Verbatim always worked however, never more no name on media after that

 

[Deleted_413010]

oof looks like a no name brand disc yeah... I remember like every second copy you made with those no name disc ones, you had to throw and do a new burn. Verbatim always worked however, never more no name on media after that

What even is a no name?

 

[D34DL1N3R]

oof looks like a no name brand disc yeah... I remember like every second copy you made with those no name disc ones, you had to throw and do a new burn. Verbatim always worked however, never more no name on media after that

I have TONS of no name discs that were burned in the late 90's-early 2000's that all still work perfectly fine. Not saying all cheap media is fine, but it's obviously in my case not all bad either.

 

[Deleted_413010]

I have TONS of no name discs that were burned in the late 90's-early 2000's that all still work perfectly fine. Not saying all cheap media is fine, but it's obviously in my case not all bad either.

Ah so no name discs = cheap media. Got it. My country doesn't have no name discs thank god.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Ah so no name discs = cheap media. Got it. My country doesn't have no name discs thank god.

Are you not in the US as indicated by your profile/flag? Because the US most certainly does have cheap no-name discs. Tons of them. I've never lived anywhere else.

 

[Deleted_413010]

Are you not in the US as indicated by your profile/flag? Because the US most certainly does have cheap no-name discs. Tons of them. I've never lived anywhere else.

I am in the US...but if they do exist then I guess I have been lucky enough to never get one

 

[DinohScene]

I honestly have no clue, I tend to make digital backups ASAP if I get any kind of disc.

 

[Deleted_413010]

I honestly have no clue, I tend to make digital backups ASAP if I get any kind of disc.

So your like an archivist. Well I can't even imagine how much disk space would be needed to store all those discs.

 

[DinohScene]

So your like an archivist. Well I can't even imagine how much disk space would be needed to store all those discs.

Terabytes of HDD space.
I got to exchange HDDs in me server soon, 8 TB is running low ;p

 

[D34DL1N3R]

I am in the US...but if they do exist then I guess I have been lucky enough to never get one

Well if you're not buying them, of course you haven't gotten one. Haha. They're sold all over the place. Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Best Buy, Amazon, and almost everywhere else burnable discs are sold.

 

[Vinceherman]

I would like someone that have a no-name cd try and read it. Those bastards died so fast it was silly. That is just a more or less silver disc with no press on the top of it.

not sure what my oldest disc is but just grabbed this random old battered silver disc from and it worked fine!

 

[gnmmarechal]

Terabytes of HDD space.
I got to exchange HDDs in me server soon, 8 TB is running low ;p

Relatable. I too must get more storage soon.

 

[Deleted_413010]

Relatable. I too must get more storage soon.

Mine's an SSD

 

[gnmmarechal]

Mine's an SSD

Mine is... a mountain of drives.

 

[RandomUser]

I believe my oldest burn CD, yes CD was MS office 97 or 2000 and VB6, but sadly I have misplace them and cannot find them.
Actually my first burned CD was when I did a mistake and burned an ISO file onto the CD disk not to the CD disk, I was a newbie at the time.

Mine's an SSD

Mine is RAM

 

[Deleted_413010]

MS office 97 or 2000

Speaking of Microsoft Office I actually have some stuff from a Microsoft Office 2000 Beta Event. Its pretty special and rare.

 

[RandomUser]

Speaking of Microsoft Office I actually have some stuff from a Microsoft Office 2000 Beta Event. Its pretty special and rare.

Cool, sounds like a nice collection. All I have for exotic collection is a beta version Windows Vista Ultimate from Microsoft. Don't know if that is special or is rare or not.

 

[Deleted_413010]

Cool, sounds like a nice collection. All I have for exotic collection is a beta version Windows Vista Ultimate from Microsoft. Don't know if that is special or is rare or not.

Why don't you upload it to a cloud service and PM me the link. I'll check it out and tell you if its rare or not.