I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it's writing at 300 KBps and... buffer underrun. So many coasters.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember when some company started advertising "BURN-proof" CD-R drives and thinking that was a really dumb phrase, because literally nobody shortened "buffer underrun" to "BURN", and because, you know, "burning" was the entire point of a CD-R drive.

It worked though. Buffer underruns weren't a problem on the later generations of drives. I still never burned at max speed on those though. Felt like asking for trouble to burn a disc at 52x or whatever they maxed out at. At that point it was the difference between 1.5 minutes and 4 minutes or something like that. I was never in that big a rush.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The last CD-drive I had burned at 52x. I still remember how it sounded like a small jet engine spooling up when the burn started. Amazing how I always got bit perfect burns and how the discs didn't explode while spinning like a car turbocharger.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Maybe it's the one with multiple beams? Although I can see that for reading but not writing.