I m afraid I will disagree with you my friend...
You can't keep your old movies collection (hundreds of them) or all your favorite series (thousands of episodes) or all your of mp3 songs to flash drives...
You need to reserve a million flash drives for ever to do this...
DVDs and Blurays are the only cheap media to keep this staff archived...
Nero is in deed full of garbage, but when installing Nero, always choose custom install and then install only what you need...
Finally, as I still need a good burning software, I will give a try at the program you mentioned (Burnaware)...
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I just checked the Burnaware.
It seems to be a very good software but unfortunately the Free version does not support direct CD/DVD to CD/DVD copy.
So I think I have to use the Premium version to do this. I ll find it and check it tomorrow (03:20 right now

) and I will come back to that...