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Eh. From what I've seen, needing an optical drive is pretty rare for most users these days. And when you do need one, the external USB cable variety is really c
by sneed_chucker 3y ago
Eh. From what I've seen, needing an optical drive is pretty rare for most users these days. And when you do need one, the external USB cable variety is really cheap and works fine.
It is nice that on older laptops, like pre 2012 MacBook pros and ThinkPad T400s, you can swap the optical drive with an additional drive caddy and put multiple SSDs in the machine.
- jwells89 3y agoA large chunk of the remainder who still keep an optical drive around do so for personal media archival, in which case they’d want specific drives known to be well suited to that purpose (feature support, high accuracy[0], etc), and the drives built into laptops usually aren’t amazing in this regard. [0]: https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-Accuracy-2022 https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?48320-CD-Drive-A...