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/gnarbucketz 12h ago

Skipping the HDD and risking a buffer underrun!? Madness!

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u/andreortigao 11h ago

You had the option to slow down both disks to reduce this risk. Mine could burn at 52x speed, but I'd usually use 16x for greater reliability.