ASUS today announced the ASUS ZenDrive V1M, an external USB-C DVD burner with intelligent cable management and broad compatibility with Windows 11 and macOS laptops and desktop PCs. It supports M-DISC... ASUS announces the external DVD burner ZenDrive V1M
Wouldn't build a PC without a DVD/BR-drive these days, still, but I can see the use for laptops which tend not to come with such things any more.
Exactly I was gona say same thing? at first I thought this was old post dragged up. A dvd burner that external in this time in age? I have not even had optical drive attached to my pc in over 2 decade, but if i was to have one it would be extneral kind in expensive side for dvd burner though then asus always has been
I don't get these devices. I have an external blu-ray drive but it also has a SD card reader, additional USB ports and an internal SSD. I can justify what I have because it does other stuff that I need even though I rarely need the optical drive.
There is actually a pretty large market for them, we sell the current Asus ones regularly. Only thing is the price of this it a tad too much.
Offline backups, no ransomware would tamper with that data. Sounds 2000's and old fashioned, but there are still people /companies out there doing backups of important data on tape or optical discs and have those stored in a physical vault or safe. I would have all the backup solutions available, even that it would be a hassle to deal with.
And being external I'd imagine laptop users are also a target group. Not all of them allow internal optical drives.
not too long now before we can use CDs as security storage, accessing this ancient artifact requires at least a millennial hacker
Made me smile. As having the data on a vinyl or cassette and no millennial hacker can get that. However, there is always data rot. Even M-Disc are safe from that, no one can really predicts bit flipping.
