nightcraw1er.488: To be honest, I don't really use CD's any more. The price of hard drives now is so cheap, I mean you can get a 4tb HDD for less than £100, that its simpler to get those. Although if you want to easily swap to your laptop, pick up an external USB 3.0 HDD, 1tb should cost you more than £30-40, you can then add others, remove etc. I have a setup where I have two 5.25 drawers for plug and play 2.5 SSD, 3.5 HDD's in, so I just plug a new HDD in, copy everything over, then eject it.
External Hdd isn't that cheap everywhere. A typical External hdd on special is ZAR899, a typical Cd is ZAR5. I paid ZAR1399 for my 3TB on special. (ZAR = South African Rand).
Internal HDD's is either a little cheaper to more expensive.
So dumping stuff on CD/DVD is way cheaper.