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Let this be a warning: SAVE THE DATA ON THOSE OLD BURNED DISCS. They won't last forever. Now is the time!
I have a box of CDs with backups of my digital past from 1997 up to 2007. These are things ranging from when I was at university to my first couple of paying jobs.
Today, I spent the whole afternoon backing up (the backups) onto my NAS. I have an old laptop with a DVD drive and an external USB drive for the PC. Unfortunately, neither could read most of the discs anymore 😢.
At last, an old NEC ND-3520AW I found in a box of old PC stuff came to the rescue. It also struggled with a couple of discs but eventually managed to read all the discs without errors.
I am happy that the data is safe now. Not that I really need any of it anymore, but it has some sentimental value.
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Laser Engraver Uses All of the DVD Drive - For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existenc... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/laser-engraver-uses-all-of-the-dvd-drive/ #opticaldrive #steppermotor #laserhacks #carriage #dvddrive #engraver #arduino #gcode #laser #cnc
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Mini Laser Engraver Could Carve Out a Place on Your Desk - Got a couple of old DVD-RW drives lying around, just collecting dust? Of course yo... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/02/mini-laser-engraver-could-carve-out-a-place-on-your-desk/ #laserengraver #arduinohacks #laserhacks #arduinouno #dvddrive #how-to #laser
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Build A Plotter Using Scrap DVD Drives - Building your own CNC machine can present a series of varied challenges. There are the software cons... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/29/build-a-plotter-using-scrap-dvd-drives/ #opticaldrive #penplotter #cnchacks #dvddrive #cddrive #plotter #cnc