Anybody else a nutcase with lots optical drives?

[Tralalero Tralala]

2x wh16ns40 (im intending to put firmware on these to backup 4k blu rays)
1x bh16ns40 (spare drive i took out to put in two other blu ray drives that support 4k blu ray)
1x sh-d163b dvd drive (for backing up xbox 360/xbox games)

[smokerob79]

I have one that will do it all....its a LG that never got a firmware update that will burn 4k with atmos audio.....the funny part was getting it out of a dead PC found on the side of the road with it being the only working part still left in the system......

[Tralalero Tralala]

Origineel geplaatst door smokerob79:

I have one that will do it all....its a LG that never got a firmware update that will burn 4k with atmos audio.....the funny part was getting it out of a dead PC found on the side of the road with it being the only working part still left in the system......

it probably wont rip xbox 360 discs though. theres only 8 pc dvd drives (unless you use a 0800 drive straihgt from a 360 with a x360ecuter kit) that ever worked with kreon firmware.

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Microsoft_Xbox_and_Xbox_360_Dumping_Guide

[Tralalero Tralala]

its even worse for wii/gamecube discs but those are expensive drives (people keep buying them to rip nintendo games which drives the price up) and they take eons to rip even for the fastest drives

(I do not condone distributing these rips to other people, xbox, nintendo, standard dvd/blu ray or otherwise)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I cannot say that I have any optical drives but I have a bunch of external instruments and storage hot swaps, oh and several sets of varying depth speaker systems.

[smokerob79]

dont care about dumping....burning is the only thing i am after and its 4k discs with atmos.....

[DonMcK]

Have an LG Blu Ray in my main PC, I kept the DVD rewriter it replaced as a backup.

Also have an old Toshiba laptop with a HD-DVD player + a spare HD drive. (I think I still have a couple of HD Movie discs somewhere as well)

[OutlawNix]

The last time I had an optical drive in a computer or even used one. It was when I had a desktop computer that used an AMD Phenom II X4-965 Black Edition.

Once PC games became mostly digital is when I phased away from using an optical drive.

[Haruspex]

My current case is a Fractal North. It's the first case I've ever owned with no space for any optical drives. I keep telling myself I can just buy an external USB drive if I need it, but so far I just haven't needed it.

[OutlawNix]

Origineel geplaatst door Haruspex:

My current case is a Fractal North. It's the first case I've ever owned with no space for any optical drives. I keep telling myself I can just buy an external USB drive if I need it, but so far I just haven't needed it.

The last case I owned that had add the space for optical drives was the "Cool Master Half EVO". It was when I built an AMD system around the AMD Phenom II X4-965 Black Edition. I had went all out with it and ended up buying two XFX HD 5770's ran them in crossfire. Each GPU costed me $400 US dollars and was new at the time.

While I don't have that system any longer. Just yesterday I stumbled upon one of the XFX HD 5770's I ran back than. It was like running in to a friend you not see for many years.

At the time the HD 5770 looked like a big GPU but compare to GPU's these days they are small. lol

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

laptop has dvdrw, usb external bluray, ps3 bluray, couple pc cdrom and dvd
bought one of the last semi modern laptops with dvd slot maybe

[Crawl]

Internet connections are fast, VPNs are cheap, and hard drive space is plentiful. I have zero use for an optical drive.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Origineel geplaatst door Crawl:

Internet connections are fast, VPNs are cheap, and hard drive space is plentiful. I have zero use for an optical drive.

This is pretty decisive.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

its good if you go to book sales or garage sales and get dvds for $1 or library and check out bunch of movies

[OutlawNix]

All this talk about fast internet access.. Is giving me flash backs of my 56k dial up days....
Plus when I finally did get access to broadband how darn happy I was.. Now I'm on 1Gbps broadband.

[Illusion of Progress]

Origineel geplaatst door Haruspex:

I keep telling myself I can just buy an external USB drive if I need it, but so far I just haven't needed it.

This has been my mentality too.

My current case does have space for it, and I even once had one in it until I removed it some years ago. It saw almost no use through the 2010s and was old and intermittently failing over time (it read discs fine, but failed to open at times, and while there's typically an easy fix for that, I never used it so I never tried to resolve it).

However, I'm starting to think I shouldn't procrastinate for too long because who knows what selection and availability will be like as the years pass. I recall reading that the last manufacturer of writable discs stopped production recently or something? Due to the vast amount of media out there still on discs, I expect the drives themselves may still be available for some time yet, but you never know, and it's not like availability or pricing on these is going to vastly improve. They bottomed out decades ago. They're still cheap for now, so I might get another internal and external one to cover all bases, and then also make ISOs of all of the discs I do have (I currently only have one game backed up in ISO format).