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On the other hand, disks for the mass market come very cheap (US-$10 or less) and with constantly changing contents, you probably have more than one disk that contains interesing data. At home you may flip through these disks very often in a short time. So the drawer gives you faster access to the disks but is less protective.
So what to buy? If you have a expensive valuable disk the costs for the caddy (about US-$5) wont matter, neither will the higher price for the drive. But if you are a normal home user, you probably have those magazine disks and you're not willing to spend more than 30 bucks for a CD. If you have a caddy for each of them this could get expensive for you.
'Hey, I can change the disk in the caddy, so I do need only 2 or 3 caddies!' you might say. But you're going to sacrifice the higher protection (and cheaper caddies sacrifice the mechnics of your drive. It's just not built to insert, eject, insert, eject, insert, eject... in a high frequency!)