OS X Lion’s Internet Recovery tool is one more nail in the DVD’s coffin

Re:OS X Lion’s Internet Recovery tool is one more nail in th... by ams6110 on Thursday July 21, 2011 @10:22AM (#2789583)

I for one wish they had never been invented. The WORST consumer data storage medium ever was the CD/DVD. It had capacity, but was ridiculously fragile for a consumer product.

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Re:OS X Lion’s Internet Recovery tool is one more nail in th... by mentat on Thursday July 21, 2011 @12:52PM (#2790221)

Surely you're not serious? The innovation that CDs and DVDs made possible is mind boggling. Digital music, video, gaming, none of these were possible with the existant storage densities and prices. They're clearly not the final solution to data storage but they bridged an important gap in bootstrapping widespread computer usage.

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Re:OS X Lion’s Internet Recovery tool is one more nail in th... by zerohp on Thursday July 21, 2011 @10:26AM (#2789597)

What do you do to your discs? I've never broken or damaged one by accident. They're not that fragile.

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Re:OS X Lion’s Internet Recovery tool is one more nail in th... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 21, 2011 @11:55AM (#2790003)

Personally I've never damaged a disc. I've a few that have the foil flaked off (they're about 10 years old but have been kept out of sunlight and were brand name ones too).

However a certain child damaged one of my GameCube Zelda discs recently ... scratched to hell in 15s. It's not like I can run cdparanoia on it either ...

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