Poll: Do you still have an optical drive?

[MissChief]

Three years later I’m sure a lot has changed. The original split was that more people still had an optical drive than don’t. I may start a new thread and ask for a Poll.

 

[ODuffer]

I have a USB optical drive (read only), just in case I need some data off an old CD/DVD. This is becoming increasingly less likely though.

 

[Mallers]

I have one still, internal one that i use for ripping bluray and dvd for plex

 

[andy_mk3]

I now have 2 optical drives in a recent XP era machine I bought, CD-RW and DVD-ROM actually feels quite cool using physical media for stuff again, as well as a floppy disk.

 

[Axil]

Lets think ....

PC (HAF932 case FTW - modern cases are rubbish) has DVD-RW , Hybrid Blu-ray/HD-DVD/DVD Rom, Bluray writer (so 3 internal drives ) and also a external Bluray rom + external xbox360 HD-DVD Rom drive
I do a lost of media transferring

 

[Semple]

My new case doesn't even have the 5.25" bays to house an optical drive.

I do have an external one, but hasn't been used in years.

 

[dannywaugh1]

internal ?
why not external ?

Actually I'm not really sure lol.

Might consider an external use one.

 

[ik9000]

2 per machine. Mostly DVDRW as I regularly rip batches of CDs. I have a BD-RW but it sees little use for BR tbh. When I get round to archiving my photos for backup it will come in handy.

 

[j4ska]

I don't think I've used one in years.

Anyone still rocking DVD drive etc?

Perhaps a poll would be nice?

Yes, it's in the case but disconnected as it's increasing Windows loading times ^^, just connecting in when needed.

 

[ik9000]

Yes, it's in the case but disconnected as it's increasing Windows loading times ^^, just connecting in when needed.

Would changing the boot order priority in bios not do the same?

 

[d_brennen]

I have a USB DVD drive in a drawer for the VERY, VERY rare time I need one. Not even sure of it's capabilities, it may be a DVDRW

 

[ik9000]

I have a USB DVD drive in a drawer for the VERY, VERY rare time I need one. Not even sure of it's capabilities, it may be a DVDRW

yeah I have one of those too. Somewhere. That's a big somewhere... I've not seen it in a while thinking about it.

If anyone finds a sky blue Samsung USB3 DVDRW writer please can they let me know. Last seen with the laptop hub dongle that is also AWOL.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

Use rewritable cds in the car so still need the drive. But i could easily get by with external usb one since i probably update the cd once every 3 months or so lol

 

[j4ska]

Would changing the boot order priority in bios not do the same?

It still slow down by 1-2s lol it's annoying me

 

[bimbleuk]

External CD-ROM just in case plus I have 2 LightScribe drives that can "print" the disc label because they might become a curio.

 

[inogen]

I have an external one that I bought years ago for a laptop that didn’t have one. I still use it to burn cds for the cars sometimes.