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In Today's World Is Optical Drive Necessary?

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I use mine to play old games like The Simpsons Hit & Run and watch DVDs, but that's about it

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I think that if you have Unlimited Data on your internet then no an optical drive is not needed.

 

I am only using one in my MacPro at the moment for archiving all my DVDs onto a NAS and I am torrenting all my blu-rays (Its legal to own a backup of a movie that you own). Plus I'm keeping all of the DVDs just in storage instead of taking up room in my already full to the brim bedroom.

 

Anyway I own an S340 and its a fantastic little case but the side panel can get scratched easily. 

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It depends. For most people, it's fine. If you're in somewhere where the internet's not too amazing, or if you have a number of older games, you may have a use.

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I am a First Time Builder I am Going to Use NZXT S340 Case For my build ..... but it does not have that 5 and a quater bay.

I Personally think That Using Dvds is Shit Bcoz i Mostly Download Movies As well as Games

and Even If i opt For Seeing a Movie I Mostly Watch it On TV Using The Seperate Bluray Player.

But Some People Say That U need to hav a optical Drive in ur Pc?? Is Is necessary??

I would recommend one because i'ts only 20 bucks and YOLO

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For me, yes. I refuse to buy digital music and films, as they hold a little more value when they're physical. 

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When you have a 100GB data cap, yeah you kinda need one,

Do we live in a world where data caps is still a thing? yes we do,

do we then live in a world where we still need to cling to optical

disc drives? yes we do.

 

Not to mention that boxed game copies with some nice artwork

is vastly superior and holds a greater sentimental value compared

to digital copies. 

 

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I don't know, but I think optical drive is still needed although rarely used.... Better safe than sorry.... Don't know when to use it.

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i feel as if a bluray drive is nice to have (considering that it is cheaper than getting bluray player 4 the livingroom)

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Google servers disagrees with your Datacap...

I don't see how.

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You're not my mother, you can't tell me what I do & do not need! :P

 

 

 

In all seriousness, I use my ODD whenever I buy music CD's but, that's all it gets used for now. I can't even recall the last time I burnt a CD or DVD for that matter. So yeah.

 

I don't even bother buying physical versions of PC games anymore, unless; A: it's cheaper than Steam & B: it has Steamworks. It's usually not the case though, so I just stick to digital. I think WoW was the last PC game I bought as a physical copy and that was the Cataclysm expansion since, it was just easier for me to go digital last 2 expansions.

 

Saying that I love having physical media for TV shows, movies, music & console games. Dunno why just something I prefer I guess.

The only thing I have "physical" copies of now are Blu Rays (ive always liked having a physical collection of movies) and console games.

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Holy shit.

You only need caps for starts of sentences and nouns. Jesus christ man.

U r the definition of an F#cking Grammar Asshole. 

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Don't need one. Install everything via DAEMON tools and no data cap :D

 

 

U r the definition of an F#cking Grammar Asshole. 

Take it easy man

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Short story: yes. Long story: I'll give it tomorrow

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U r the definition of an F#cking Grammar Asshole. 

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Optical Drives Are Not Necessary By The Way.

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Don't need one. Install everything via DAEMON tools and no data cap :D

 

 
 

Take it easy man

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I don't see how.

Have you see Google Internet? 300mb/s if you don't have a cap on that and you download an ungodly amount of shiz then a cap would help you from not running over that and paying out of pocket which I assume they would charge a f*&k ton for honey trapping is business and any business is good buisiness, suck you in with "unlimited" internet then you run over it because I know people who could eat 100Gb cap like it's nothing.

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I still have an optical drive in my laptop 1yo and I actually need it for work.  As a teacher there are some documentaries that can not be downloaded and are only found on disk form.  Ditto for some of the programs we still have to use.  Also lets just say the internet where I am is bad, really bad most of the time.  So while they are going the way of the dodo optical drives are not extinct just yet.

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Haven't had one in my main rig since 2011.

 

It's only necessary for HTPCs/ Steamboxes.

I thought the whole point of Steamboxes was that they had Steam, which meant that content was delivered digitally. :P

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I still always have to use mine. I would love it over anything else. Physical over digital.

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I thought the whole point of Steamboxes was that they had Steam, which meant that content was delivered digitally. :P

 

Well I'm not interested in having more than 1 box next to my TV. So that one box needs to have everything. That includes a blu-ray drive, and a lot of hard drives for other media.

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You don't need it. If you ever need one in the future just buy an external one, almost the same price as an internal one.

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