macoman Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have not use Nero in years and I was thinking who is using this software? Sounds prehistoric to me. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have used it every now and then but just became bloated like everything else. macoman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishanx Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I use ImgBurn. It's small and does the job. :) For something more ...premium, there is Ashampoo, UltraISO. macoman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I think you should change the question to "Anyone using discs?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Haven't used Nero in years, bloated way out of proportion and haven't looked back.. I'm sure it works but it turned into an 'everything and the kitchen sink' application. There's tons of decent similar tools that (in my opinion) function way better. I think you should change the question to "Anyone using discs?".Yup. Keep various OS's on them for installation (or slipstreams for faster re-installation). Works on everything, got a few servers here that don't have USB ports and no real desire to set up a PXE environment. (And I think a few of my systems don't support that either.) Music or videos and such though, naw not in quite a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorD Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I occasionally use the video editing tools from nero or when burning a dual layer video that I made after using the tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 Nope, i've not really burned any CD's / DVD's for years now. If i was going to i would use ImgBurn, its free and does the job perfectly. macoman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted September 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted September 12, 2014 Damn, Nero. I used the love using it. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted September 12, 2014 Subscriber¹ Share Posted September 12, 2014 it was the BEST. then it became bloated and added tons of stuff that was useless to me. now i just don't burn discs anymore. what is the point when everything has usb macoman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 InsaneNutter, on 12 Sept 2014 - 09:42, said:Nope, i've not really burned any CD's / DVD's for years now. If i was going to i would use ImgBurn, its free and does the job perfectly. omg, I have the same experience and I use as well imgburn if I need to burn a cd or dvd. Nero was popular back from 1999 to 2006. I think I have not use Nero since 2008. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 I use ImgBurn for pretty much everything. Burning CDs, DVDs, and BluRays. I don't burn video, only data, so I'm not sure if Nero has anything useful in the video side of things. Damn, Nero. I used the love using it. Yeah back before the bloat it was fantastic. macoman and +E.Worm Jimmy 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 it was the BEST. then it became bloated and added tons of stuff that was useless to me. now i just don't burn discs anymore. what is the point when everything has usb Yup, everything now is in usb thumb drive or isos... I don't deal with dics anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 it was the BEST. then it became bloated and added tons of stuff that was useless to me. now i just don't burn discs anymore. what is the point when everything has usb I use disc for archival backups primarily. USB is cool for transferring data when I don't have GIGe between the devices, but really isn't a great place for backups meant to last a while. HDDs aren't either as you have the whole bitrot issue to contend with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 LogicalApex, on 12 Sept 2014 - 09:57, said:I use disc for archival backups primarily. USB is cool for transferring data when I don't have GIGe between the devices, but really isn't a great place for backups meant to last a while. HDDs aren't either as you have the whole bitrot issue to contend with. what about USB thumb drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 what about USB thumb drives? I don't trust them for long-term backups. I have had too many die suddenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorD Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Well now I question why I haven't added Imgburn to my toolkit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted September 12, 2014 Veteran Share Posted September 12, 2014 it was the BEST. then it became bloated and added tons of stuff that was useless to me. now i just don't burn discs anymore. what is the point when everything has usb I still burn movies for my parents and a few friends who still watch movies using a DVD/BluRay player. I actually tried setting them up with a streaming solution and it was just to much for them to grasp. My parents are very blue collar so never grew up with computers at all, so for them it is just much easier to have that physical disk to put in and press play. I'd imagine there are still some people in my situation as well. Although computers are very common place for a lot of people, there are still some people who do not use them at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I still burn movies for my parents and a few friends who still watch movies using a DVD/BluRay player. Home movies I presume ;) +LogicalApex 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupik Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I can't remember when the last time I burned a disk. But when I did, I used imgburn. Used Nero, but stopped after it got bloated. macoman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 I think you should change the question to "Anyone using discs?". unlike you alot of people still like to have physical backups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted September 12, 2014 Subscriber¹ Share Posted September 12, 2014 unlike you alot of people still like to have physical backups tape is better ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 tape is better ;) I have wanted to do tape, but can't justify spending over $1K on a tape backup system. Discs are far more affordable. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted September 12, 2014 Subscriber¹ Share Posted September 12, 2014 I have wanted to do tape, but can't justify spending over $1K on a tape backup system. Discs are far more affordable. reliabily of dvd writeable and re-writeable have proven to be pretty bad. i cannot remember the exact details, but they tend to fail as they age a LOT not sure how it compared with usb drives though... anyone knows?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 reliabily of dvd writeable and re-writeable have proven to be pretty bad. i cannot remember the exact details, but they tend to fail as they age a LOT not sure how it compared with usb drives though... anyone knows?? Well, I can speak only from my own experience owning brand names USB thumb drives. They never fail on me. I don't use it all the time, maybe once every three or six months and they are so far reliable. I had not touch a disc in a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted September 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 12, 2014 reliabily of dvd writeable and re-writeable have proven to be pretty bad. i cannot remember the exact details, but they tend to fail as they age a LOT not sure how it compared with usb drives though... anyone knows?? Very true. I have started using M-Disc to counter this risk, but I still add recovery data to the discs just to be sure. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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