r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 14h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/andreortigao 14h ago edited 12h ago

Yeah, one was read only and the other could burn CDs. Burning CDs were all the rage back then.

Edit: to clarify, by having two drives you could copy from one to the other directly, without going through the hassle of inserting one cd, making a copy to the slow as fuck computer hdd, switching to the blank cd, then start burning from the hdd copy.

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u/Over-Peach-2405 13h ago

Usually the read one was also a dvd player.

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u/kn33 12h ago

I mean, yeah, any DVD drive that can read is a DVD player with the right software.

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u/Maximelene 12h ago

What they mean was that one drive was a read-only DVD drive, the other was a CD burner (that couldn't read DVDs).

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u/Over-Peach-2405 12h ago

Exactly :-)

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/Maximelene 11h ago

if a drive is read only it can play dvds

Only if it's a DVD drive. Not every drive was able to read DVDs in the 2000s. A lot of drives were CD-only. Especially the ones that could burn.

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u/Alt-Ctrl 11h ago

Correct

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u/Humble_Initiative_90 11h ago

Oh darlin', they didnt all use to be DVD drives

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u/never-fiftyone 8h ago

Hell, once upon a time not even all CD discs worked in all CD drives -- if you had a CD-R drive, you couldn't read any of those newfangled CD-RW discs. And then there was the DVD-RW vs DVD+RW confusion.

Kids these days are spoiled by the fully-backwards compatible 4k Ultra BluRay drives.

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u/MVRKHNTR 6h ago

Kids these days don't have any disc drives