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Opitcal drive limit?

ioWesty
By ioWesty
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can a Windows 11 pc have more than one optical drive in the system at a time and be operated simultaneously 

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I haven't personally verified this, but Windows should just recognize it as another drive. You shouldn't have any issues with how many optical drives are connected.

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Yes, for example, my PC has an optical drive in it, but if I wanted to I could connect a portable USB optical drive and can address each drive at the same time. This would hold true for BluRay drives as well.

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I have had two optical drives in my system for years without any difficulties and I have used them for a lot of things but the one thing that comes up the most when using them at the same time would be to simply copy files from one drive to the other.  So, yea.  It works with two drives.

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i have no experieces with this personally as i am still on windows 10 and my PC case wont handle even 1 optical drive but i am going to say yes based on that the optical drive has a SATA interface for the internal drives so you would only be limited to the SATA connections on your motherboard. as for the external ones like plugging in a USB, you should only be limited to the number of USB headers on your motherboard to your case as well as how many USB hubs you have plugged in.

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It's a drive like any other (SSD, HDD, Floppy, Flash Drive). 

Windows gets a little wonky if you have more than 26 total drives, the last I checked, though. 

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