Antoine_RProfessionals use optical drives all the time. Ever heard of a photographer giving a CD with all the edited pictures on it after a photo shoot? Freelance pros give a CD/Bluray disc copy of commercials, credits, effects, etc. when handing their work over to clients; and since hard drives degrade much faster than CDs, CDs are the best choice when it comes to digital record keeping. There's millions of parents who like to burn photos and home movies on to DVDs/Blurays. Now I understand that if those are the kinds of things you're doing, then maybe this case isn't the one for you. I get that. I was just making a point to all the people who think that optical drives are completely out of date and antiqued. Maybe for the gaming community that's true, but for the majority of everyone else, it's just not.
The photographer I hired a couple months ago offered his work on a complimentary USB stick, so that may soon change too.
Harddrives degrade quicker than CDs? Absolutely not. The opposite is more likely. Ive had DVDs go corrupt in 5 years time.
Those millions of parents are as old as the technology and likely dont know any better, so thats no excuse.
My parents still like VHS, but that doesn't validate keeping VHS around.
Harddrives are more compact and cheaper by the gigabyte.
Bluray costs about 4.9ct per Gb, a harddrive can do it as cheap as 3.4ct per Gb.
Plus ofcourse a HDD is reusable countless times and more flexible.
I feel these feeble plastic disks only exist out of old habit..