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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (6 children)

You can just buy an internal DVD-ROM drive and install it in your pc. If you lack an IDE port on your motherboard you can use PCIe expansion cards. Power can be supplied by Molex.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

... Sata DVD-ROM drives are a thing

Hell I've still got one just in case

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are, but now some modern cases don't have bays so personally I'm still restricted to external if I want one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could always plug it in temporarily; do what you gotta do, then remove it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've actually done that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I even have a blu ray drive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Whenever I see a SATA optical drive that someone doesn't want, I grab it and tuck it away. Shit is rare now.

I'm sure I could go to a shop and just pick one up, but honestly, I don't have a reason to. Give me an opportunity to snag one for free and I will not pass it up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bruh I'm comfortable building my own PCs and that still sounds way more effort than just buying an external optical drive with USB interface.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It is that's the joke

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you lack an IDE port on your motherboard

Bro, IDE has been dead for YEARS now, I'd be shocked if there was an IDE connector on any consumer computer made in the last 10 years (Industrial stuff can get weird)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I figured disk drives were kinda obsolete so they'd use obsolete connectors.

In any event, my example was to explicitly not suggest an external disk drive on USB.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I've only ever used SATA for disc drives the past 15 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

i thought you were using outdated connectors as a joke 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My pdu doesn't have molex connectors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I've since been informed you can get them with SATA connectors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yea, but that's pretty janky. external if you've got a small desktop or laptop - go internal if you can (still rocking my cd drive in my desktop)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

and I said janky

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most gaming pc cases now don't have any bay slots on the front panel. USB power buttons and audio plugs got moved to the top and all the slots for floppy and CD drives just vanished.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

But they do have easy open side panels so just chuck the drive in there