system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I remember burning my first CD on a 1st generation burner. It was so sensitive that you couldn’t even walk near the computer while it was burning or it would fail. It seemed so magical at the time, now they are just trash.
gpt
I owned a few drives back then that could “technically” write at like 16x or 24x speed, but the computer was sometimes too slow and you’d get a buffer underrun, and failed disc.  You certainly couldn’t always run whatever software you wanted while the burner was running, it would risk tying up too many system resources.  

Then sometimes burning at the faster speed you’d simply get an unreliable disc that only worked a third of the time.  

If I cared about a disc I’d burn at 4x or 8x