they may not be used as much any more but at the prices now your not going to loose any sleep about them. personally i got a usb pen before christmas and it has never left my side. but that is my personal circumstances, it depends who you are and what type of storage you need. in school floppies and usb pens are the best because they only have floppy drives and usb ports on the computers, and if some computers had cd drives i certainly doubt they will be cd-rw's. using cd-r/w disks in my mind are a waste of time unless you want to store files permenantly or semi-perminantly. i just need something quick to drag and drop my files too after lessons, not waiting for minutes for a cd to burn.