Poll: Do you still have an optical drive?

Do you still have an optical drive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 102 54.8%

  • No

    Votes: 84 45.2%
  • Total voters
    186
Got 2 in my everyday linux rig. I use them occasionally to rip blu-rays or write office files I've been working on for my dad. Dad isnt the most tech savvy of old age pensioners (I'm his IT manager :rolleyes:) & he is prone to losing things like USB flash drives. :mad:
 
I've got a Pioneer Blu Ray 128GB writer that I recently got new with a 'new' case (brand new case but Corsair 450D from 2014) just before Xmas last year.

I have to confess I haven't even used it yet, nor own any blu rays or bought DVDs in years, but I just wanted to have one still in a modern system and don't regret it. I think it gives the case a retro appeal in a modern, fairly high end gaming system and I still remember when CD drives were the latest thing, so I like the familiarity and old school utility like headphones slots on phones.

I'll likely get a few Blu Ray box sets and maybe some blank blu rays for backup so I will get some use out of it eventually.
 
PC777 said:
I've got a Pioneer Blu Ray 128GB writer that I recently got new with a 'new' case (brand new case but Corsair 450D from 2014) just before Xmas last year.

I have to confess I haven't even used it yet, nor own any blu rays or bought DVDs in years, but I just wanted to have one still in a modern system and don't regret it. I think it gives the case a retro appeal in a modern, fairly high end gaming system and I still remember when CD drives were the latest thing, so I like the familiarity and old school utility like headphones slots on phones.

I'll likely get a few Blu Ray box sets and maybe some blank blu rays for backup so I will get some use out of it eventually.
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I've got a DAT backup drive. Haven't used it in 20 years. It's probably as much use as your DVD drive but it's spent the last 20 years in my loft.
 
Yes I do. I have quite a cool drive actually. I have an LG and it reads both HD-DVD and BD and it's a BR rewritter.

I got it when the new formats just came out and it was still a format war!

Probably used it less then 10 times to burn a BluRay but glad I've had it for the times I wanted to move 50GB video files to a friend's house and the biggest USB drive I had was 16GB.

Keeping my drive as I still buy music CDs as I love the uncompressed quality. So I mainly use it to rip my CD collection.
 
I've had an optical drive in every pc i have ever built since my 386. I still have a usb 3.5" floppy drive for dealing with vintage dos only hardware.

Currently have an LG bluray writer that gets light use. Usually pulling things back from discs I recorded 15-20 years ago or watching/ripping blurays. I scarcely write to disc these days as file sizes have exponentially risen and I'd be consuming vast quantities of disks. LTO looks more attractive now for archival use as it has substantially more capacity. (I use LTO 6 at work which has 2.5TB uncompressed storage per tape)
 
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my desktop has a pioneer bluy ray drive i got 10 writable discs with it never used them not sure if i will bother with one in the next build, new laptop doesn't have one.
 
I find USB rescue drives to be less reliable (in terms of just working when I need them) than burned CDs/DVDs (even if the optical drive's attached via USB). I don't use a drive regularly, but it's assumed the role of the floppy drive, which I kept on my desktop for the same reason long after data storage was relevant.
 
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