Matt Newman

People have been saying this for years. A few years ago, people were saying, "When we have gigabyte hard drives, we won't need CD-R's anymore." Hard drives will never be as inexpensive as optical media, we will always have some type of removeable disk. It's the same reason we have hard drives and not just flash memory - hard drives are slower and louder, but cheaper. Removeable optical media is slower and less convenient than hard drives, but it is and will always be cheaper.