On 12/07/2016 06:54, Conrad Meyer wrote: > DVD-R dates to 1997; cheap USB flash devices are now pervasive. Maybe > it's time to move on from CD. +1 on dropping CD images. I haven't burnt a CD in over 10 years and I don't believe I have seen a CD only drive in that time. Even with a CD size image I have burnt them to DVD, I first started this because transfer speeds of DVD's are faster and nowadays it costs almost the same to burn a DVD. So I see zero benefit to using CD's and that's before thinking of reusable USB devices. I do think there is a benefit to keeping the small boot only image available that can be used to start/recover a machine that can then download any data to be installed. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Storing Data Shane AmblerReceived on Tue Jul 12 2016 - 10:52:55 UTC
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