CD burners

Optical disc recorders

CD burners are devices that write data onto recordable compact discs.

Popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s for creating music compilations, backing up files, and copying software, they became standard in personal computers before being largely supplanted by USB drives and cloud storage.

I burned a mix CD for the road trip.

Related

data backup · discs · jewel case · data · duplicators · circuit board · ripping · laser diode · tray · peripheral device · Nero · optical drive · optical disc drives · eject · audio CD · laser · disc image · power supply

Opposites
data direction

CD burnersCD-ROM drives

Devices reading compact discs

CD players · DVD players · playback devices

technological era

CD burnerscloud storage

Online data preservation service

streaming services · digital downloads · Spotify · Netflix · solid-state drives

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G