Rod Speed wrote:

...because hard drives are in fact much more reliable than
the drive you put the CDs and DVDs into...

While that might well be true, my feelings are somewhat coloured by the fact
that in all my years of owning and using them I have never had any CD or DVD
drive go wrong or damage a disk. On the other hand, I've lost count of the
number of hard drives I've had which have failed.

Bert