CrunchGear

Actually I (re)use exclusively rewritable discs. After getting sick of having piles of dvds that never get looked at or used anymore (and if they are needed they often don’t work, because that burner from 5 years ago had a slightly different laser focus and no other drive in the world will read the disc fine) I got a spindle of 50 DVD+RWs which I use now to burn stuff that I don’t need lying around on my hard disk right now, such as the latest season of that show I like, or the latest Vista beta build, the latest Mandriva or Ubuntu Linux (look dad, he said the ‘L’ word!) boot cd, and for that it’s pretty useful!

i know for sure that students especially high school students can use rw discs a lot bc teachers are always asking them to bring in copys of stuff.

I haven’t used RWs for years now. In grad school, we had lots of problems with lost data and ever since I just prefferred to drop a couple of cents on a cheap CD-R or a USB flash drive for portable/sharable storage.