Solve : CD/DVD RW External Drive?

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Answer» I'm considering purchasing an external drive(as above) and have never owned one. Are they normally as good as internal drives ?. With more and more PC's not having an internal I thought that it may be the thing to do? There's always the chance that my next PC will not have an internal drive as well. I think that using an external drive it would make it easier to be able to create boot/rescue disks etc.. Using Flash/Thumb drives (rightly or wrongly) for me is a pain. Also, I have many unused disks from the old days and so much recorded music that I could be listening to and don't, because they are in disks. Anything that I should be aware of? Appreciate your thoughts, overthehillThey're pretty straightforward really. A SATA drive should cost around $15 to $20 USD on Newegg, plugs in super-easy (most cases have tool-free MOUNTING these days, but some still require you to screw the drive in on both SIDES of the tower), powered by SATA like your internal SDD/ HDD. LG make excellent drives. They're cheap, work forever, and out of several PC builds I've never seen one go south. I strongly recommend them (I hope that's cool here!) Honestly, outside of installing the OS or backing stuff up on DVD-R/ CD-R, there really isn't much use for these drives anymore. Everything is downloaded these days. Even most games you buy on disc will just help you install Steam or Origin and lead you to download the game on those services anyway. But they're so cheap that it doesn't hurt to have one. You never know when it might come in handy. I've never owned a PC that didn't have some kind of physical media drive (going back to 5.25" floppies, the big black discs, when I was a kid!). How do you even GET an OS installed without one? Quote from: overthehill on October 21, 2015, 12:43:56 PM I'm considering purchasing an external drive... and have never owned one. Are they normally as good as internal drives ?. ... Anything that I should be aware of? Appreciate your thoughts, overthehill Yes, they work almost as good. But do not expect them to have the same high speed transfer RATERS. Some require power from the USB poets. Others come with a wall wort. For most things, you would not need a blue ray. A standard DVD /CD player-burner will do. Even though they are portable, don't drop them.Thanks guys. Yea, shouldn't break the bank and would probably be a good idea. Like Mattrock607 said; how would you install an OS without one?. overthehillThey work fine. I don't use optical media much but when I need to use it with my laptop (haven't had a laptop with an internal DVD drive for over 3 years) I use a USB DVD drive, works fine.Ths. camerongray. I'm going to get one. And Mattrock607, welcome to CH. overthehill

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I'm considering purchasing an external drive(as above) and have never owned one. Are they normally as good as internal drives ?.
With more and more PC's not having an internal I thought that it may be the thing to do? There's always the chance that my next PC will not have an internal drive as well. I think that using an external drive it would make it easier to be able to create boot/rescue disks etc.. Using Flash/Thumb drives (rightly or wrongly) for me is a pain. Also, I have many unused disks from the old days and so much recorded music that I could be listening to and don't, because they are in disks. Anything that I should be aware of? Appreciate your thoughts, overthehillThey're pretty straightforward really. A SATA drive should cost around $15 to $20 USD on Newegg, plugs in super-easy (most cases have tool-free MOUNTING these days, but some still require you to screw the drive in on both SIDES of the tower), powered by SATA like your internal SDD/ HDD.

LG make excellent drives. They're cheap, work forever, and out of several PC builds I've never seen one go south. I strongly recommend them (I hope that's cool here!)

Honestly, outside of installing the OS or backing stuff up on DVD-R/ CD-R, there really isn't much use for these drives anymore. Everything is downloaded these days. Even most games you buy on disc will just help you install Steam or Origin and lead you to download the game on those services anyway. But they're so cheap that it doesn't hurt to have one. You never know when it might come in handy.

I've never owned a PC that didn't have some kind of physical media drive (going back to 5.25" floppies, the big black discs, when I was a kid!). How do you even GET an OS installed without one? Quote from: overthehill on October 21, 2015, 12:43:56 PM

I'm considering purchasing an external drive... and have never owned one. Are they normally as good as internal drives ?. ...
Anything that I should be aware of? Appreciate your thoughts, overthehill

Yes, they work almost as good. But do not expect them to have the same high speed transfer RATERS. Some require power from the USB poets. Others come with a wall wort.

For most things, you would not need a blue ray. A standard DVD /CD player-burner will do.

Even though they are portable, don't drop them.Thanks guys. Yea, shouldn't break the bank and would probably be a good idea. Like Mattrock607 said; how would you install an OS without one?. overthehillThey work fine. I don't use optical media much but when I need to use it with my laptop (haven't had a laptop with an internal DVD drive for over 3 years) I use a USB DVD drive, works fine.Ths. camerongray. I'm going to get one. And Mattrock607, welcome to CH. overthehill

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