• dankm@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    That’s true. CD-RW “burners”, to keep accurate phrasing would’ve been well described as “melters”. They melted the medium, and erasing it was just melting it back.

    I still miss them, so convienent in the mid 2000s era cars that could play CDs loaded with decent quality MP3s.

    • tweeks@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      But I remember you could only do it X times before you’d actually be able to corrupt your data. Never had that happen, but it always felt a bit scary.

      To be fair, practically every medium from tape to HDD to SSD has a limit. But CD-RW was a lot more vulnerable to data loss in my memory.