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 months agoYou 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.
cm0002@lemmy.world 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)
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 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.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 5 months ago
I’ve only ever used SATA for disc drives the past 15 years
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
i thought you were using outdated connectors as a joke 😂
joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 months ago
My pdu doesn’t have molex connectors.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve since been informed you can get them with SATA connectors.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 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.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But they do have easy open side panels so just chuck the drive in there
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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)
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I said internal.
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
and I said janky
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
… Sata DVD-ROM drives are a thing
Hell I’ve still got one just in case
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh word?
boonhet@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They are, but now some modern cases don’t have bays so personally I’m still restricted to external if I want one.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Could always plug it in temporarily; do what you gotta do, then remove it again.
kn33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I even have a blu ray drive
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 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.