CD-ROM Drive: Does it affect performance?

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I've been without a CD-ROM drive for about six years and whilst rummaging in a box of old components have bunged one in my current machine.

I'm just wondering, does having such a drive take any resources away from the rest of the PC? It's already installed some software etc and I'm wondering if I'm better of disabling it altogether?

It's come at a time where I've bunged a new (old Q9550) CPU in, old SoundBlaster soundcard in and re-installed my Razer Copperhead drivers. It's probably a placebo effect but some things seem less snappy than usual.

However, the CR-ROM drive is the thing I'd least use, so if it's doing me no good, I'm happy to disable it if you folks think it's worth my time.


*Just realised this is in the completely wrong section. Mods - If seen, please feel free to move :)
 
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Some apps which scan every drive on the system and that will take a while longer whilst the drive spins up. I can't think of any other way it'd really cause any slow down whilst not in use.
 
When in use especially on older OSes CD-ROM drives can still stall/slowdown the OS on initial access especially if its having problems reading the disc inside - shouldn't cause any general slowdown though when the drive isn't in use.

You shouldn't see any FPS hit in games, etc. unless something is very badly wrong but you might find some older games that came with CD audio tracks on the data disc will pause a moment longer after first loading a new level while checking if they should be playing CD audio.
 
kayomani said:
Some apps which scan every drive on the system and that will take a while longer whilst the drive spins up. I can't think of any other way it'd really cause any slow down whilst not in use.
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This.

Same issues with floppy drives.
 
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