Poll: What optical drive do you use? (Poll)

[OpenToSuggestions]

The PS3 came out here in 2007 and many of us have 1080p televisions or 1080p screens.
I have had a DVD RW (many different ones) since about 2003 as I could make my own copies of dvd films, PS2/XBOX homebrew and general data backup.
I found a very good offer on a bluray DVD ROM drive for a desktop PC online yet just think that I don't need one.
With the cheap prices of hard drives I have not needed a bluray drive to back up my data - I realise hard drive prices have just shot up but I paid just £55 for a Samsung F4 2TB two months ago. Perhaps with the speed of broadband now I download so much that blurays just aren't big enough compared to hard drives.

What optical drives do you use? - If you have multiple drives, vote for the best one that you have .
(Not interested in DVD RAM, floppy drive etc ).

EDIT: Thanks to whichever mod made the poll and added a few more options for me .

 

[RJC]

Using a Bluray ROM and DVD RW.

 

[dalehitchy1]

I feel the same. Blur ray drives are cheap and worth it if,you wanna watch films from it. If however you want to back up I feel it's just not worth it. It'd the reason why I havnt bothered purchasing one yet.

The only point when I would purchase one is when I would have to download 40gb games but it's on blu ray instead... But I dnt think any games are on blu ray yet for pc.

 

[jbloggs]

Just a plain old ordinary Sony Optiarc DVD RW...

 

[Jay794]

I've got a DVD Writer combined with a blu ray player, btw whats the difference between a DVD RAM drive and DVD ROM drive?

 

[gary996]

Sony DVD RW

 

[setter]

Using an lg h20l hd - dvd/blu ray dvd rw combo drive. Never used hd dvd with it though. As power dvd 9 ultra doesnt support it, shame as hd dvd disks are cheap as chips now.

 

[Hyburnate]

None.

 

[ANDARIAL]

Currently a Liteon ihas 124 with custom firmware DVD RW

 

[King Damager]

BlurayROM that's also DVD-RW

kd

 

[Tealc]

Got an old LG IDE DVD dual layer writer which lives in the drawer and gets pulled out 3 maybe 4 times a year. I use a USB to SATA/IDE thingy that also serves as a way to backup to external hard drives.

 

[Purgatory]

Sony DVD RW, but wanting a new Bluray Writer like the new pioneer BDXL ones.. Just ashame the media is still very expensive.

 

[ng93]

Got a samsung DVD-RW, would still be using my 5-ish year old dvd-rw if it was sata. Rarely use it though, with steam etc. most of what I buy is download only these days.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

My 2009 desktop (in my sig) has bluray ROM.
My 2003 laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150) has a combo drive.

 

[GTO656]

Have an oldish Lite-on DVD RW which I use fo burning, Did have PS3 in late 07 and played blu rays. Now have an Blu Ray ROM Oh and I have an DVD RW multi recorder on my laptop.

 

[mysticsniper]

My rig has 2 Pioneer DVD-RW's, which is handy for on the fly burning.

I am thinking of getting rid of them both and having an external Bluray RW, as I think the case looks soo much better without them.

 

[SamPazz]

i just use an old Sony DVD-RW, nothing special but it works

 

[seb500]

OcUK 24x !

 

[panyan]

Currently a Liteon ihas 124 with custom firmware DVD RW

naughty naughty

 

[Kosmiche]

Rather bogstandard sony dvd rw.

Does anyone for some strange reason still have a floppy drive?