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I was going to say, I still have a 5 pack of Lightscribe DVDs unopened in a box specifically to save something "special" but obviously nothing has ever been special enough to warrant using them. And now that they aren't made anymore it would feel downright sacrilegious to use them, not to mention 4.7GB of capacity is just not enough for anything nowadays really.

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4.7GB is quite enough for a standalone Linux DVD (for devices that still have DVD drives). Plus some cool art.

Might be a good idea to preserve a known-working distro for some old PC, especially for discontinued or less-used architectures. Just saw a discussion the other day about finding 32-bit Debian for an old laptop.

> preserve

I don't know how it ended up with later generations, but all the CD-R and DVD-R discs that I thought I had archived everything on became entirely unreadable after something around 7 to 8 years.

Yeah! I have had that exact same feeling! The one I remember burning the most was a collection of photos and movies of my family. I printed across the disc a photo of everyone. It was just so cool, even in black and white, but I always held back because they were a little expensive, and I wanted to save them for something really special! Had they been the same price as other discs.. I think I would have used them more.

Someone would probably buy them on eBay for a good price.

There are definitely people that collect older media for use in the retro setups. I constantly buy New Old Stock when I find Floppies, Mini Disc, Cassettes, Zip Disks, hell just about anything. We're a weird bunch of collectors but we're out there.

Somebody here is going to be very rich one day, just safeguard them against elements

Looks like you can still buy 10-packs on eBay for £15, not really collectible yet it seems :-)

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