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It never did because USB keys became cheap and ubiquitous (and larger!) right around the same time.
by TylerE 4y ago
It never did because USB keys became cheap and ubiquitous (and larger!) right around the same time.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoThanks, I was there million years ag^W^W^W. I've seen a couple of times when people used drag-n-drop for the batch writing, but that was because they were totally clueless about how you should write data on compact disks. *grin* > became cheap and ubiquitous yes > and larger! No. Refer to [0] for a remainder on how large and fast they were. And that is 2005. Sure, by 2008 anyone who wanted or needed could had a 8/16GB one, but between 2001 of the spec, 2003 of the doc and 2008 there are 5-7 years. NB I worked as L1+ tech at that time and I had a CD-R with Ghost'ed WinXP, specifically so I could install it on an ancient PCs without a DVD drive. By 2008 my tools were on a bootable thumbdrive and I no longer took a 30+ CD case with me on a regular basis. [0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2005/04/flash2005/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2005/04/flash2005/ I also like what they tested bundled software and reported how much memory those program use in the RAM.
- TylerE 4y ago512MB is larger. I spent my college years (circa 2000) toting a 32mb drive around.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> 512MB is larger I'm talking about CDs. And my memory isn't that bad (yet) to forgot 620/650/700MB capacity.
- bityard 4y agoNo, it never caught on because CD-RW drives came on the market soon after and were more or less the same experience without the drawback of "using up" the disc. Cheap 512MB and 1GB USB flash drives came much, much, later.
- kodt 4y agoExactly, little 32 - 128 MB flash drives were around not too much later and removed the need for floppy discs for saving documents and such. But for larger sizes CD-RW was more common. There were also Zip and Jazz drives but they weren’t as common due to cost.
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- ClumsyPilot 4y agoUSB keys have a big problem of being writeable. Sometimes you want something that is written once, and once only, and you know it has not been altered. CD's lend themselves to archiving the way paper does. You lend someone a USB, you don't know what they are returning on it to you.
- abofh 4y agoMaybe, but I seem to recall most CDR/RW only had a shelf life approaching double digit years. The rest of your point certainly stands though
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoM-disc CD and DVD media is good for much longer.
- hulitu 4y agoAnd how long do you think data lasts on a flash drive ?
- charlieyu1 4y agoDVD was the one that obsoleted CD based storage.