But, writing contents to a CD or DVD isn’t as easy as sending the files to your USB drives with a few clicks. So, CDs, DVDs and other optical drives will not be obsolete anytime soon, for its wide compatibility with a number of devices out there. CDs and DVDs can be used to keep things private if you don’t trust the dubious privacy policies of the cloud storage platforms.
Just consider, you have to show the slideshow of your last trip to your grandparents, who only have a CD or DVD player, or you need to keep something permanently without any risk of deleting it accidentally from your external hard drive or cloud storage drive. Though optical drives like CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs are slowly phasing out with the advent of external hard drives, USB drives, and cloud storage drives, they are still useful in different scenarios.
