I'm dedicating this thread for all things that we find that may be of great interest to others. Whether is a heads up, life tip, or warning, it all belongs here.
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I'm dedicating this thread for all things that we find that may be of great interest to others. Whether is a heads up, life tip, or warning, it all belongs here.
First post and I think this is something that most of you know but just in case...
Proper storage of optical media
Source: DVD / CD Storage - Best cases, wallets, sleeves ? - digitalFAQ Forum
I have always knew that nothing can beat a standard jewel case (not the slim line edition). Everything else scratches the media if they are used often, take-out / put-in .Quote:
Wallets can scratch media if there is a lot of traffic -- more than a few times per year of removal. There is also issues with the various plastics out there eating into the polycarbonates and lacquers of the disc, which will damage a DVD, and completely ruin a CD. The "rubbery" plastics are the issue -- not the cheap "plastic bag" type plastics.
Plastic sleeves are essentially the same as wallets, but without the binding.
Paper sleeves are (as the name suggests) paper, and paper has grains and fibers. Again, there is a scratch issue to worry about if there's a lot of traffic. Discs in paper sleeves, in a sturdy plastic or metal box, is one good archival solution. But it comes with an idea that you won't access the disc very often -- less than a few times per year.
Slim jewel cases often lack the hover distance as found on full jewel cases, so you can scratch a disc in a slim, too. It's not as easy to scratch in a slim case as it is in a wallet or sleeve, but the potential is still there if the discs get frequent traffic.
Spindles make for great storage, assuming you're not using hub-less style media (no raised bumps around the inner hole). The larger the spindle, the less traffic should be. For example, storing discs on a 100-disc spindle would mean you should almost never access the discs -- purely for backup archives. The 25 and 50 count spindles are better for discs you only access a few times per year.. And then 10-count spindles are great for frequently-accessed media. The only caveat to a spindle is that you'll handle other discs, when removing the one you truly want. Assuming you handle a disc properly (from edge, or finger loosely in a hole), then you're find. It's the people who handle a disc as if it were a ham sandwich that have troubles with this method.
For high-traffic media, nothing can really replace a high-quality jewel case, DVD movie-style case or Blu-ray case. These were somewhat designed for lots of open/close + remove/reinsert type use in mind.
For those that scoff and think "no one is using optical media anymore", I would like to remind that:
1. malware cannot infest optical media, as opposed to USB drives. Even if you have a physical read/write switch, there are no guarantees.
2. an optical media will always boot correctly, and on the majority of systems, whereas an usb device might not.
Interesting information. I own very few CDs and DVDs now... I gave or threw away most of them after realizing I would never need or listen to the stuff within, only keeping those with high sentimental value and blank media. Backups were copied to my external disk and then destroyed.
Anyway, most of the ones I do have are kept on a spindle or paper sleeves to save space.
One thing puzzles me though. Why do some wallets have that top piece? As seen here:
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It is used for securing the disc, place it over the disc and it will never slip but what happens if you insert the disc without taking it out first? Pretty it'll scratch the disc very bad.
Depends on how roughly you insert it in the first place :smilie4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Razor
If only I knew these back in the first days I was burning discs.
I have already burned thousands of optical discs, dozens of CD and hundreds of DVD. I even have had more than a handful of dvd writers in the past, because it got used at lot. Some got broken in the loading mechanism (some were fixable) and some others were simply deprecated or the laser worn out. All my "backups" were done in DVDs, I also recorded too much porn in DVD I think :wgrin:
I also burned a hell lot of xbox 360 backups in DVD+DL.
Looking at the advices about how to store the discs, I find it funny how in my years of storing these media I went through all the methods in this exact order! I had a lot of wallets, then a lot of single cases made with paper in the back and plastic in the front (very useful for visualizing the contents). Then finally I moved to spindles, most the 50 and 25 slots ones, simply because that's were those DVD+DL came in. Every now and then I would store single movie or anime backups in standard jewel case.
I miss the old days of burning optical discs, I wished blu-ray media had been the new standard for backups, alas it has been left aside due to high costs and such (50 GB media are still too expensive), also the decreasing price of large hdd has played a part in this. Nowadays my computer case doesn't even have any optical media reader and I no longer backup anything (even in clouds) :wfrown:
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https://winworldpc.com/ contains 90% edited images (i.e. non-official images). While it is unknown if or not these images work good, it might be better to try and get original iso images based on checksum.
In regards to newer Windows OSes such as Win10, don't get them from trackers. Instead use https://forums.mydigitallife.net/ to get the links and checksums. The site is clean and contain only original images.
I daresay it's almost impossible to find untouched images of Microsoft products affected by the Sun Microsystems lawsuit (those that install or include the Microsoft Java VM) and anything older.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Razor
That's true. Since Microsoft removed them and their hashes from VLSC and Technet.
However, I have found 95, 98SE, 2000 and Office 2000, Office XP to be intact. Official hashes no longer exist but some people still have the original disks.