Do you use optical drives?

[brob]

Optical drives are still useful for those of us who are older than 30. Without them its hard to rip those cd collections we built up in our youth.

 

  A friend just bought a turntable for his system so that he could rip his 2K+ album collection.

[Psykomantis00]

I haven't used a cd/dvd rom in at least two years. If you have a fast internet connection there is no need for an optical drive. 

[GuestForeverX]

I only use it for Installing an OS or grabbing a driver that I can't find online. Other than that I probably could do without.

[beebskadoo]

Might I suggest a certain blue pill for yourself?

I definitely don't need that

[MasterJV]

All the time. I use it to burn disc so I can listen to it in my car(doesn't have cassette.) I have Netflix and I receive Movies in the mail so I need a Blu-Ray player(Some movies can't be streamed) When I install an OS.

There are many uses for it and I like to include at least a DVD burner. Rather have it there from the beginning that have to run to my local best buy and get ripped off.

[Guest]

I only use it for old movies that i have on a DVD.

[-ism]

Gotta burn my CDs somehow! Mom's car doesn't have a 3.5mm jack

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Well sometimes a have a cup. And sometimes i dont have a place to put it. Thats when I realize i dont have one.

[Element921]

I only used my optical drive once to install an OS and drivers.

[Antistatic12]

Basically for OS installs.
 

[Bumnutzz]

I installed my OS and had to install the Ethernet driver for my motherboard using my optical. Apart from that i haven't used it since.

[SerMejong]

No. But it is still useful for others. Meh i dont like discs now. drives ftw.

[aselwyn1]

i am forced to for games due to my bandwidth cap

[TheProfosist]

I will very likely be having 2 in my desktop build.

[djdanster]

Use it to install games I get from Amazon. Downloads speeds are still just too slow from Steam or Origin.

 

Also OS install I either use a usb stick or disc.

[Ethnod]

very very rare, OS installs some times and the odd old game but that is about it. There was a while where I was watching old DVD's on it but not any more as I now have my DVD player hooked up with surround sound to the same screen as my PC

[BucklinSprings]

I use my optical drive all the time for music, seeing as there's a shop that sells CDs right around the corner from my apartment.

 

Plus, that noise it makes when it starts to read a disk. mmmmmmm

[Dudenstein]

I actually still use it pretty actively. i still buy my music via CDs because I like having a physical item when it comes to my music so when I use my drive pretty actively. 

[Henry]

I will very likely be having 2 in my desktop build.

Why would you need two?

[QcDExtreme]

i have a blu-ray drive (not a burner unfortunately) but i use it to burn cd's  for friends and to watch movies and install some of my older games, In fact i have diablo 2 in the it right now however i haven't gotten around to installing it.

[Verne]

I only use optical drive on my MacBook, and mostly because I can't remove it (easily). Else I would just move all my install media to USB drives. On my main desktop PC I haven't used an optical drive for years.

[TheProfosist]

Why would you need two?

Because I have two after combining two builds a while back, I can easily fit two in my case, I can plug two in with the method I am going with, and two is always better than one. Think of all the multitasking you can do since you have two of them. Now do I need two and would I even plan a build with two in, no.

[SJBijzitter]

Haven't needed one the past two years... but if I happen to do I'll just insert the disk into my laptop, rip an image and forward the image to my computer to run it.

[TheProfosist]

Haven't needed one the past two years... but if I happen to do I'll just insert the disk into my laptop, rip an image and forward the image to my computer to run it.

yep thats what I mostly use them for, reading physiical media into my computer and possibly making boot discs of thing that arnt USB friendly, then booting off them. There is also backing certain things up as they do last considerably longer than HDDs when properly stored.

[juretrn]

Not for quite a while now, it's really just occasionally.