agree great price if you can find a store with some :smiley:
sradmad
28 Feb 16#3
good find op, heat added
REAL_DEAL
28 Feb 16#4
Will check tomoz, which store did you see them
lennypigdog
28 Feb 16#5
Had a few on the shelf in Oadby today
fishmaster
28 Feb 161#6
I never write anything to DVD anymore, never mind wanting to write anything twice or more to the same DVD. Dirt cheap now as optical media is painfully slow, I guess some one somewhere has a need for this.
smelladeal
28 Feb 16#7
This sort of thing is on the cusp of being obsolete. With fibre optic broadband speeds and just about everything available online free (legally or not), is there really still a need for storage media like this?
Chuggee to smelladeal
29 Feb 162#10
Easier to give a cheap 7p disc with 4GB of data on to a friend than a 4GB memory stick.
rkl
29 Feb 16#8
If you need to snail-mail post some data (encrypted, with the password sent via another method), DVDs are still the cheapest per GB. Also, I sometimes find that OS distros written to USB sticks don't always boot correctly on some PCs, yet the same distro written to DVD does.
What I do with (Verbatim...the best) DVD+RW's is to write a bunch of OS'es and live recovery images on them (I write the OS name on each disc with a Sharpie) and occasionally rewrite them with newer versions as they come out. A tub of 25 lasts ages and I paid around 7.50 last time I got a tub.
Other than the above, DVDs are indeed pretty well obsolete - most video playback devices nowadays have either USB or Net capability, so the days of actually burning a movie to DVD are long gone really. There's also been a trend for quite a while for machines, particularly laptops, to ship without optical devices to save space/weight. Won't stop me shifting my trusty LG combo drive (CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray) to successive PCs I've bought...
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What I do with (Verbatim...the best) DVD+RW's is to write a bunch of OS'es and live recovery images on them (I write the OS name on each disc with a Sharpie) and occasionally rewrite them with newer versions as they come out. A tub of 25 lasts ages and I paid around 7.50 last time I got a tub.
Other than the above, DVDs are indeed pretty well obsolete - most video playback devices nowadays have either USB or Net capability, so the days of actually burning a movie to DVD are long gone really. There's also been a trend for quite a while for machines, particularly laptops, to ship without optical devices to save space/weight. Won't stop me shifting my trusty LG combo drive (CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray) to successive PCs I've bought...