Best External Optical Drive?

[WilliamRea]

Building a new system, and since I have an extensive CD library, I wanted to have an optical drive, but couldn't find a case that had decent enough airflow with an optical drive bay. Looking for an external one now, suggestions?

[NobleGamer]

Fractal brand has several different cases with optical bays that seem to have decent airflow: Focus G (I have this) and Pop Air

 

As for optical drive, I have an LG sp80nb80 external dvd drive + burner - No complaints here. If you are looking for specific speeds or connectors, I use pcpartpicker.com to filter down the models and see prices available in my country.

[worstalentscout]

5 hours ago, NobleGamer said:

Fractal brand has several different cases with optical bays that seem to have decent airflow: Focus G (I have this) and Pop Air

 

As for optical drive, I have an LG sp80nb80 external dvd drive + burner - No complaints here. If you are looking for specific speeds or connectors, I use pcpartpicker.com to filter down the models and see prices available in my country.

 

how reliable is ASUS ? or you reckon LG would be more reliable ?.............

[NobleGamer]

5 hours ago, worstalentscout said:

 

how reliable is ASUS ? or you reckon LG would be more reliable ?.............

I had an optical internal drive from ASUS many years ago, and my only complaint was that it had a noisy spin up after being idle for a while, but that might be normal for most internal drives.

 

I think LG makes consumer DVD and Bluray drives for entertainment systems & TVs too. So they may have more experience than ASUS with optical drives, but I don't know if that translates to more reliable.

[worstalentscout]

1 hour ago, NobleGamer said:

I had an optical internal drive from ASUS many years ago, and my only complaint was that it had a noisy spin up after being idle for a while, but that might be normal for most internal drives.

 

I think LG makes consumer DVD and Bluray drives for entertainment systems & TVs too. So they may have more experience than ASUS with optical drives, but I don't know if that translates to more reliable.

many thanks..........perhaps LG is the way to go for external drives...........too bad my current desktop case has no way to mount my 10-yr-old internal optical drive (which i hardly ever used)...........