Optical Drive Lifetime (POLL)

[georgespamme]

I'm looking to buy a Blu-ray Drive soon for movie watching on my PC, but some of them are pretty expensive!  I thought I might buy used to save a buck, but I'm not sure about safe that gamble would be.  After reading various articles and figures about prospective optical drive lives, I decided to just poll this great community.  Optical drives may have a certain rated time of use, but in practice how long have yours lasted?  I understand that there are a lot of variables to this equation, but this is mostly just out of curiosity.  Any thoughts on the topic would be welcome below.

(In case you forgot what an optical drive looks like.)

(This didn't really fit any subforum, so I posted it here.)

[Arty]

only had 1 of many fail, and that was offbrand

 

all my onbrands 3+, 4+ years so far 

[EpicGeekonFire]

The ones I have are actual brand names and have been bullet proof so far. 

[QueenDemetria]

ODDly enough DVD drives are one of the more durable parts of a PC, despite them being mechanical. I've had them last many years and be problem free, even after using them hard.

[cesrai]

I had one that run for 5+ years and my friend has one that 4+ years.

[Sousuke]

6 Years or more is more like 10 Years so ...

[minibois]

Never.

Still have 10 year old working (but not operational) drives in my house.

[It's Jackson]

I have used my optical drive on a average of 0 times in the last 5 years

[samcool55]

I had actually more than 1 dying, but only 1 of them died of age, the other 3 odd's that i knew that died, were killed by humans D:

[georgespamme]

ODDly enough DVD drives are one of the more durable parts of a PC, despite them being mechanical. I've had them last many years and be problem free, even after using them hard.

That is ODD... ;)

Thanks for the replies.

[TheMcSame]

Checked the old PC that my parents had, the thing must be a good 8-10 years old now, and the ODD still works. They haven't used that PC for a 2-3 years though.

[harrynowl]

The only ones I've used are Xbox 360s which both lasted just over 2 years.

[GoodBytes]

Yes it can happen. But it is usually the system that holds the disc, and that varies based on the disc surface. Although, it usually due to dust built-up inside over the years. You can open it and properly clean the drive and close it up, and it is fine again, in most cases.

Keeping your computer clean, and usually our drive like we do now: rarely, it will probably simply not break.

[Brandon Cassie]

Nope, I've had the same drive for like 8 years or so, it works but it isn't in my system...who even uses discs anymore (jkdontbashme)