Why are DVD-RAM disks so unpopular ?

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I live in Romania and I hardly search for a DVD-RAM Disk. Almost all computers Have DVD-RAM RW and Readers but there are no disks to buy. I know that disks are a bit expensive but not more instead DVD-RAM are can be rewrite about 100.000 times and the surface is more scratch protected.
 
They're more expensive and harder to make but holds the same amount of data, so companies avoid them.
 
Due to the prevalence of portable hard drives and USB flash drives very few people saw the need for DVD RAM drives.

It also takes a comparatively long time to burn data onto a DVD drive. Even then, not everyone had disk drives that were able to read DVD-RAM formats.
DVD RAM drives were also more expensive, so most consumers tend to gravitate to cheaper DVD-RW discs.

It was however a more popular format amongst camcorder users, since they could delete and re-record video on the fly. This was before camcorders with built in hard drives and solid state drives became common.
 
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