do you still keep a CD drive in your desktop? why, why not?
got an external USB oneinternal drives take up a SATA slot which I need for spinning rust drives
>>109028262I need maximum airflow
Sometimes to watch my old DVD collection
>>109028262I still buy cds. I have an internal drive in my desktop and a generic brand cd player on my nightstand. I mainly buy CDs because I want to actually own the things I care about and cds are a media type of which I can do that with while having the best quality because it's digital. I also get complete control over what I own since there's no drm. Real ownership of real things is important to me. In general for most media I pirate it and then if I like it I buy a physical copy like a bluray/cd afterward. Though I rarely pirate books and read them on a screen. I almost always exclusively buy physical copies of those. An exception though is things I just have a random urge to read, like one time I randomly thought I should start reading the part in Plato's republic about socrates' cave allegory. And so I read it online.
>>109028262Yes; it came with the desktop. I like making CD mixes.
>>109028262nah, even when I built my first PC around 2012 it was a bit of a waste getting a bluray drive. i used it maybe once or twice
Nah, I'm at least two cases beyond ones that had 5.25" drive bays as an option.instead I have a USB caddy that fits slimline drives, and some old cases stashed away that can take full-size drives if needed.
>>109028262still have it, I even bought a new one two years ago.
>>109028262I still keep a really old laptop with a dvd drive to rip my old dvds and music cds
I do have an old LG PATA CD-RW drive in USB enclosure. More modern drives seem to have abysmal write quality to CD's in general, slimlines especially.
>>109028262Yeah. I don't really use it but I still have a lot of CDs from the 90s and 00s so it's nice to have just in case I want to go through some old shit.
>>109028777Checked. Can't you just take it out of the old-ass laptop and connect it to your desktop through a SATA connection?
>>109028262I do, and no it doesn't work.
>>109028262My 20 years old Linkin Park CD are still working.
>>109028912>laptop dvd driveThey are very unreliable.I fucked up 3 DVD-DL-R burning them
>>109028262i dont have one in my machines but i do have a sata and pata spare drives when needed since im a retro fag who likes repurposing old hardware
>>109028262I have an old internal drive that came with my laptop (I think it can also record blurays)
>>109028262Yes.I have an LG BDRXL. I enjoy packing things up on disc though i mostly use dvd these days. The microjew cant tamper with it if its backed up physically. I have a decade of games and software and dependancies like netframework installers burned to disc so i can in theory setup a computer completely offline without issue.
>>109028262I bought an external one to rip some DVDs I couldn't find online.
>>109028262Can you even call it a puter if it doesn't have one
>>109028777What prevents one from putting a HDD or something in the laptop CD drive slot? The laptop CD drive as far as i know from disassembling random shit is that it uses the same plugs and stuff as any other drive. Then you could do a high-low SSD/HDD setup on your laptop.
>>109028262Obsolete technology. You don't use punch cards, do you?
I rip music CDs, DVDs and BDs with mine. Along with burning Mega CD, Saturn and PS1 games. I enjoy printing the labels on them especially since my handwriting is total dogshit.
>>109029516Security by obsolescence always works if the obsolescence is incredibly obsolescent.
i buy the occasional blu ray and I also started burning dvds again. some software, base youtube videos that might get delisted, old games, music etc>b but just back stuff on on a hard driveits not as fun plus things always get accidentally deleted or moved around or lost or whatever. having things on a physical disk seems more safe to mealso just feels based and coutner culture to the whole cloud computing, download everything culture to have disks again
>>109028262Moved it to an external enclosure
I have a Blu-ray burner. I seldom use it, but often enough that I shouldn't have to tolerate the inconvenience of an external drive when my PC case is big enough to fit one. I actually burned my first BD-R recently... with a 2 MB payload to jailbreak my PS4.
>>109028912I could but I'm too lazy for the hassle.>>109028956>They are very unreliable.this old ass laptop dvd drive worls like a charm for 10 years now. last time I burned some CDs for my car was last week>>109029500this laptop is too old and is just a side bitch for tinkering nowadays since I have a stronger desktop for gaming and a new macbook pro for work
I have one around when needing to RIP obscure DVDs thata could not find elsewhere besides a random person in facebook
Yeah. I still burn discs for consoles without ODEs.Been having bad burns lately tho, new blank disc quality might be the culprit
I have a external usb slim drive for simple tasks like burning a disc with camera pictures, but I keep an internal drive on the retro PC for when I need to image something with nasty copy protections or burn cds at the lowest speed for devices that won't even accept 8X.
>>109029538https://xkcd.com/538/Applies in this case as well
No, but I've an external Samsung BD drive. I own a sizeable collection of discs I burned from years so I use it for the rare times I access them. I never burn discs now.
Haven't had a desktop in a decade, but I still have my drives. I have an external BD drive that I use with my laptop. Currently backing up a bunch of shit to BD-Rs, been burning for like 5 days now. It takes 45 minutes for a burn/verify cycle, plus the time it takes to organize files into ~23.3GB groups to fit the discs. I wish hard drives were still affordable.
>>109028281>got an external USB onefippybippyI even have an external floppy, not that I needed it in the last decade but still
>>109030032You do realize this is an IMAGEboard?
Sure. I don't see any reason to kick the ODS out of my case. I even got already a replacement just in case it dies.
>>109028262Yeah, I've been using the same case for like 15 years now so why get rid of it? Modern mobos still have some sata ports.
>>109028262Yeah need it to play battlefield 1942
>>109029529what technology lets me print on cds at home
>>109028262Not in ages. I have a USB Bluray drive to cover my (very infrequent) optical media needs.
>>109028262of course not, i have one of these in the closet for the one time in ten years i might need a disc
>>109028262Yes, I rip discs
No. Buying some stupid meme case to have one in a modern desktop is pointless. I have several other machines with a CD/DVD drive though, which work just fine on the rare occasion I need to burn a disc.
No, but I have an iBook that I use to make bootleg DVDs of self subbed j-horror films that I sell at low rent horror cons.
>>109028262My new PC doesn't have bays and I can't even see SATA ports behind my 40lbs of tits and ass GPU on my Gayming motherboard. I bought a cheapo LG USB writer to rip my CDs.
>>109028262I have an external usb one but I think it's dying because it doesn't read CDs so well anymore. Thank you for reminding me that I have to buy a new one.
>>109028392Don't forget to back up all your stuff and do a backup of a backup.
>>109030826Printable CD-Rs and an inkjet printer with a tray for CDs.Yeah you need to deal with inkjet bullshittery that's the un-fun part of it.
I keep a decent blueray drive in my server. I used to fuck around with trying to mount that over the network, but it's easier to just rip a full iso and mount that locally.I have USB floppy and a firewire zip drive in a drawer or a box somewhere. I actually had to use the zip drive about a year ago for work. Company had a machine go down that required configuration details that apparently weren't backed up anywhere outside of a pile of discs in a cardboard box in a storage locker. Got to bill at close to 250 an hour to spend 4 days sifting through zip discs.
>>109028262No because CD drives are pointless bloat, CDs were never actually good they were just revolutionary for the time. If you aren't a retard then digital offers every benefit of CD times x10000
It's been sitting there in my case, unplugged, for about 10 years I will never use it again but I refuse to get rid of it and I will not get a new case until I find a good one with at least two 5.25 bays
>>109028262>why not?My modern case doesn't have airflow blocking drive bays.
>>109032745>CDs were never actually goodPerfect sound quality that hasn't been surpassed to this day (because it's already perfect).Doesn't get damaged by playing like vinyl and tape.Small enough to take on trips or keep in your car's glove box.It's objectively a good format.It's obsolete now of course but damn the Philips and Sony engineers knew what they were doing.
