How Long Will It Takes For The Compact Discs To Die?

A few main factors make CDs (Optical Discs) better than Portable HDDs:
1. They cannot be easily damaged. They are not affected by heat, magnetic or electrical radiation!
2. They are cheap. The drive, as well as the discs are dead cheaper than a HDD.
3. Less space consumption. You can stack about 10 discs where you can place only a single slim HDD.
4. Durable. We cannot guarantee the working of HDD after falling a drop, but not optical discs!
5. Support for view. We can view a CD in a DVD player to check its contents, in a jiffy, where a computer is not available, but this is not in case of a HDD!

Against DVDs, it is Cheap and Easily available, nothing else.

It might take another 2 - 3 years to eradicate all kinds of CDs... But at the same time, the Motherboard Manufacturers, Intel and AMD, gives their drivers on CDs, even for the latest i7 second generation processors!!! 😔 That's sick! 😛

Cd's are only useful today because of finalize CD (content one wrote can't be manipulated) for drivers and DVD movies. Until and unless there will be some alternate way to have a very cheap such pendrives. CD's still alive.
suppose you have some data to deliver to third party how do you prefer to send to him with only option CD and portable HDD. CD because content can't changed only can be damaged.Offices , For backup data, still rely on tape drive and CD/DVD who can't afford backup server.

ianoopFor backup data, still rely on tape drive and CD/DVD who can't afford backup server.

CD itself is very old, but yeah, some folks still use Tape Backups!!! 😲