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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scott-fs" data-source="post: 1597018" data-attributes="member: 5714">Rejoining this thread after being unable to use my computer for a couple days due to computer problems.In a sense true, and it's probably better to compare them as such: The cd holds data; a HDD holds data.  An audio cd has cda files; a HDD could hold cda files (though for space purposes, mp3 is used to reduce file sizes).  Both have the same content.I place value on the HDD for the ability to store content that makes it convienient and easy to run programs for work or entertainment.  I place value on the cd for the content stored on it.  I place less value on content (in general) stored on a HDD than I do on a cd, because the HDD's primary function is the ability to use the computer from one session to the next.  The secondary function is to store data.  For this reason, I place a non-zero value on the content itself (it is so small that I effectively consider it to have no value, except for convienience (ie having a playlist made up of songs from 10 cds without needed to put a cd into a cdrom) of use).  With the cd I place more value on the data because the cd's primary function is to store data.If I take a cd and extract the cda files directly over to the hard drive (thus having an exact duplicate of content, the content on the cd still has a greater value.  As mentioned above (which was on my mind, but never brought up previously), the HDD's primary function is to get use out of a computer over multiple sessions.</blockquote>

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