| When the CD-R is out last time, it is not cheap. You need to get the CD writer in order to burn the files into it. At that time, DVD is not yet out. I burn most of my files into the CD as backup. My friends and I bought the CD writer and provide the cd duplicating services to others as well. The first CD writer we bought are only with the writable speed of 4X. Can you imagine how much time is needed to burn a CD? It is very slow but at that time, this is the latest technology.
Now, with the portable HDD, people will backup their files into the HDD instead. Less people are using CD now. Besides, the capacity of a CD is only 700mb, if compare to a 1TB or 2TB portable HDD.
