• Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

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        5 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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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      5 months ago

      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)

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        5 months ago

        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.

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      5 months ago

      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)

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      5 months ago

      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.