Originally posted by anonprivate
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My first CDROM was on a Sony VAIO Desktop I bought on Dec 29, 1997. I adopted Linux on May 1, 1998 and began using CD’s to backup /home till the size of my /home data got larger than a 4.7Gb could hold. Spanning CD’s helped for awhile but keeping 4 or 5 of a set together was a pain, and if one failed the lot was useless. For reliability I switched to DVD+RW CD’s and reused them. That really worked good for burning LiveDVD’s.
But, as I wrote, I don’t use CD’s (have 150 unused setting around) nor DVD’s (perhaps a dozen left, with 10 unused DVD+RW). It’s all USB sticks and a portable external USB HD now.
My /home data is now over 100 Gb, so when 256 Gb USB sticks (or SSD’s) become commodities I’ll be formatting them as Btrfs subvolumes and using Btrfs send-receive to store my data on them. Until then I am leaning on my cheap 320Gb USB HD and USB sticks.
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