The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Orbitalsp3 on 2024-12-06 16:04:45.

The other CC video about hard disks has been posted here already 3 times, but this one about Optical Storage Devices hasn’t. So let’s discuss this one a bit?

Half a billion bytes of information on a CD??? Dangg

Story time: I had a CD burner that kept ruining discs for me at the time of recording, but would succeed like 70% of the time (and discs were expensive). I was a kid and didn’t know what was going on. Today I know, it was obviously the power supply which was a lower quality and not supplying proper/stable power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TcsOgy9weg