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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot
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Shits crazy I can still buy compact flash cards, and zip cards
I sort of understand still selling CF cards. They were used in high end photo and video equipment until not too long ago, and they have storage space comparable with smaller SD cards and USB drives. Plenty of equipment using CF is still perfectly good and still worth using.
I've never heard of a zip card. If you mean the old zip disks (I think the largest was 250MB or so), I can't imagine any reason someone would ever use one of these. Even new, zip drives were notoriously unreliable and not all that widespread. I had one, and I rarely used it in favor of CD-R or RW.
Zip disk sounds right I saw one working on a machine when I had to reinstall windows NT off of 3 floppy's. Then had to replace the hard drive with a compact flash cause I needed it to be 4gb to recognize. Lotta niche things that are still around that work perfectly well if 30 years out of date
CF is still used in high-end DSLRs. Like, it's still the "premium" storage option.
CD burning is still kinda useful for hifi. I wouldn't use it for data these days.
Iomega ZIP disks. Those things just clicked all day.