Comment on Oh sweet, my old Empire Earth box!

• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  … Sata DVD-ROM drives are a thing

  Hell I’ve still got one just in case

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh word?

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I even have a blu ray drive

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is that’s the joke

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i thought you were using outdated connectors as a joke 😂

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• joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My pdu doesn’t have molex connectors.

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I said internal.

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    • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and I said janky

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