Do You Still Need a CD/DVD Drive For Your PC? 

I have a blu-ray drive in my pc and still use it to this day. I wish more PC games were released physically as I'm not a believer in truly owning anything digital.

I still need one. I need to exhaust all those free AOL trial discs I acquired over the years

The usefulness of CD's and DVD's now is that for the media that can still be found in this form, it doesn't require a subscription and is often cheaper than buying it digitally if I can buy it used. For example, my family has a huge collection of DVD shows and movies, which if it's enough for me, then I can save hundreds of dollars every year on not owning any streaming services. As another example, the original Skyrim would cost $20 to buy on Steam, but only about $7 as a DVD off of eBay.

Something I miss about getting a physical game or music disc was the manual/extras. I still have the huge fold-out Red Dead Redemption game map that came with the xbox360 case. Great video as always!

I certainly still use my CD/DVD drive because I've got a mass of CD`s purchased over the years and Im not paying for all my music library again via streaming. I still have loads of Vinyl as well, that fell out of fashion along with cassettes, but they're both on the increase now so `never say never`! The have other thing is you have to be so careful nowadays downloading anything because the internet is a dangerous place

your pc case looks amazing, taking good care of that OG case I see... well done. love old cases. have 2 of those. Corsair 88R (blacK), and the Graphite 780T white. yes, blue-rays, little drawers and fans controllers are amazing to have in hand-distance in yourdesk

While you're correct about the diminished need for optical drives, I still find great use for them. Like ripping my CD collection to FLAC. Or watching my wedding video and photos which both on discs.

It's true you will not need a CD/DVD drive for 99,9% of the time. But I will continue to have a drive inside my computer. For 0,1% I am happy to have a drive.

Good and simple explanation. This guy needs subs and likes ❤❤❤

Thank you. I intend to do a new build by end of year. I'm leaning towards no optical drive. I feel it will be better for the environment. Although I may still have an old rig to play older games/movies/etc.

The late 1990s/early 2000s 😍 … my favourite era in computing and gaming… maybe even in life.

Excellent video. I have heaps of discs that contain operating systems, but very rarely use them I have no real use case for DVDs and CDs

I prefer games on disc vs download them, because when they are on a disc you actually own the game.

I love your voice! It's so soothing!

if your PC/Laptop doesnt have an optical drive and you really need one then you can always go with a USB DVD drive.

I have over 500 total discs cd/dvd combined. I still enjoy buying a music cd and scanning into my pc and listening that way and transferring into my phone. Also I can create custom playlists, slap them on a flash drive and listen in the car.

As always, loved the video. Do you still game at all? Might be an interesting variety to film a “let’s play” of something current or popular back in the day.

I still have lots of CD's and DVD's that i occationally like to listen to or watch so i have a laptop bluray drive that was removed from a laptop . i attach it to my Alienware Aurora R16. I recently placed my custom built FX8350 gaming PcC back in service as it has 2 disc drives, a bluray and the other is a bluray/HDDVD combo drive. I keep an old copy of Cyberlink Power DVD that can play HDDVD cause newer versions do not support HDDVD anymore.

i want a dwd writer but i dont have space on the case to puting it,so i think i will run my cable to the front of the case and under the fans to have it outside

I'm switching cases rn and man, it hurted to see that there were no options with drive bays... I still can't believe I'm retiring my reader 😔

I must admit that since I built my PC, 2 years ago, I didn't use quite often my optical drive. But for me, there are 2 main reasons I still need it : - When I buy my albums on CD, I always make a perfect copy with Exact Audio Copy. - The ability to archive long term with M-DISCs Thanks for your video, it's great to see you back.

I built a new PC late last year and actually went out of my way to buy an "old" case (Define R6) because it still had a slot for an optical drive, multple 3.5" HDDs, and multiple up-front USB ports. Admittedly I've not used my old DVD-RW yet, but I like having it there! My motherboard drivers & utilities came on a flash drive rather than a disc, a sign of the times. Edit to add: discs are still in constant use *elsewhere* in the household. I buy all my Xbox & PlayStation games on disc wherever possible, and have a healthy collection of movies & TV series on Blu-ray as well (and would have even more if distributors would stop putting put lazy 2k upscales as "4k" releases...but that's another topic).

I still think the Optical drive for CD/DVD is one of the most important things that was for PCs or games in general. The moment optical died slowly because manufacturers did not add any extra space or slots for this thing, many games started to become digital only, thus these days only console games have blueray discs but PCs only have digital downloads through Steam, epic etc. launchers, which allows game companies to can take games from you any time also sometimes if you aren't logged in steam, epic etc. you can't even start ur singleplayer games without internet.

depends on the application

I want to get a blu ray drive for file archiving, especially with all of the 4k files we are piling up, buying bulk bluray would be cheaper than cloud services, and bluray i think has a really low chance of disc rot moving forward. Only problem is lesd and less people will have these drives in the future, despite the benefits of copying your own blurays, and curating your own collection

While i may not use the optical drive in my computer often, i’m very thankful to have opted for a case that supports it alongside one when i do need its capability. Such uses include: * Watching DVDs or Blu-Ray movies. While streaming is convenient, i do prefer having actual copies of the movies that i estimate watching more times than just once. * Ripping music or older CD-based PC games for personal backups. Plus, there’s the ”feel” to it. Using a computer that lacks an optical drive feels, to me, odd and wrong. It’d be like eating a burger without any toppings. The meat and buns may be good, but there’s something missing.

I just bought 4 drives in 2024, when i learned how many missing old tv shows are on DVD ONLY, so i found many and have been converting to digital for my 80,000 tv episode collection of old and lost sitcoms 1950-2025

I own a laptop from 2015, running windows 11, since 4th generation CPUs still possible to run windows 11, even though it is "unsupported". It still have internal DVD drive, and I still use it for fun like burning videos to blank DVD and watch it from there. Because for me, playing with vintage mechanical media storage is somehow fun.

Yes.

I haven't used the dvd writer drive on my Sony vaio E series laptop for a many yrs. It has got some problem and was not able to write on CD or dvd anyway. But reading is ok. I want to remove the drive to reduce the weight of the laptop. But I don't know if there is anything available to cover the opening after removing the drive.. So, I have left the drive there. I have a few DVDs of bootable Windows 8 and collection of program like Aomei Backupper, Aomei Partition One Key Recovery..I almost discarded these DVDs. But I didn't. One day it came really useful as someone brought to me an old Acer laptop running on Windows xp.. It is Acer Travelmate 400. It had booting problem.. Now this old laptop has no support for booting from usb drive.. It boot only from Cd or dvd. I can't remember it supports floppy drive. But I can't use bootable flash drive.. There is a program to make such old laptop boot from flash drive.. But it needs installing first and this laptop was not booting. At that time, the old dvd of Aomei programs came really useful. I was able to copy the data from the laptop.

I have a vast library of Blu-rays numbering over 300 which includes over 70 3D films like Alita Battle Angel, Jaws 3D and the Iron Man Trilogy. I also have The Hobbit Trilogy in 3D. So it is absolutely critical that I have a Blu-Ray drive in my PC which is my Asus Blu-Ray drive. Also some of my films also have 7.1 audio and I have a Creative xtreme audio 7.1 sound card and Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 speaker system connected to my sound card. And my television is a 50" Panasonic active 3D tv and universal 3D glasses. So yes I do NEED a optical drive in my pc but I found it very hard to find the right case that fulfilled my needs.

Yes, Physical media has actually been making a comeback of sorts, it is nice to access physical media when needed and even watch a movie or show. I still have a DVD/Blu Ray and am happy to have it

Yes at 0:45 I remember that pc games started to be released on DVD ROMS instead I remember I got the Shrek the Third video game for my pc in 2007 and i tried to put it on my Windows XP computer but the disc drive wouldn’t detect it and then I realized it’s because my disc drive back then was just a regular cd drive that was only made for reading regular CDs so my father then had to get a external dvd drive so I can play it

What is the best case with dvd driver actually ? Reference or model plz

Love physical media. I'm a technician. I have physical media watch my movies on physical meter. I don't want to download nothing from the computer. I want to have my CDs DVDs blu-rays at home games where I can play myself without having to worry about downloading a program. It's the only way to go. Old school is better and with the new technology that we have we can do so much more so I stick to physical media. Love it! Can get enough of it. Been working on this for more than 45 years so I tell you one thing. I love physical media. Right now I'm building a 15 DVD burner and is coming out perfect

I still need a blu-ray drive, but i have no idea how to install it because of my pc case.

My PC laptop doesn't have a built-in CD drive, so I had to buy an external one in order to be able to listen to my CD albums (or install my video editing software which came on a disc). I'm old school, I prefer physical media, especially physical music, but I'm not against digital media either. I'm open-minded regarding digital and conservative regarding physical.

I remember when steam became a thing they were still releasing games on Disc but you can only install on one account like I remember I bought Left 4 Dead on pc dvd and I installed it on my steam but after that I wasn’t allowed to install it on other steam accounts

I have a UHD Blu-Ray drive in my PC. Physical media is great, and I put a lot of disks in it.

My most recent 2 PCs don't have a dvd drive and if I would need one, I'd buy one of these usb-dvd drives. They're working quite well!

I have tons of games on cd and dvd. I’m actually looking to get an external drive for my modern PC since I’m not going to pay to download the games I already own on steam.

I use floppy disks for coasters for my beer. Optical disks make cool little clocks that are kinda nostalgic 😎👍

Even though we can download almost everything there are a few reasons why an optical drive would be preferred. As you said, music and movies are being streamed nowadays. Streaming them also means you miss out on some video quality and sound effects, which can be a small or a major difference to you. This is because when you use a disc or a file on your computer, it's already there. You aren't playing it thouasands of miles away. The movies may have also changed over time. Maybe you want to watch Star Wars with the kissing still in it. Another reason is a VR theater. Virtual reality is amazing for movies, especially 3D. You can still use some streaming services in VR and there are a bunch of movies available for free. Except movies in 3D. No streaming service has those, so you'll need to buy a blu ray disc or get a download of the movie to watch it. Getting the blu ray and ripping the file onto your computer to play it is amazing.

What corsair case is that?

I strongly disagree. Recently I was getting through my all stored backups. All on optical disks. For 150 disks dating up to 20 years back. Only 5 had bad sectors. And on that 5 faulty disks only 1% of data had corrupted files and individual files had maximum 5% loss of integrity. Compare to my hard drive stored data - 50% of hard drives died making total loss of 50% of data. Conclusion - if I would not use optical drives to preserve my data - I would loose 50% of them. Furthermore. Can any hard drive or USB stick protect your data from intentional harm - no - all data stored on HDD and USB can be modified or deleted. So - yes - optical drives are necessity. Furthermore - with "parity files" it is 100% safe storage - not even considering use of "carbon" or "gold" disks for storage safety.

If I ever build another PC I'm going to be installing a Blu-ray drive in it. Because I have a lot of Blu-ray movies or I could just change case to one that has that option

I still have a CD/DVD/Blu-ray Drive; this is primarily because I still have every CD/DVD game that I purchased; I still use it for Archiving Files.

I still feel Blu-ray discs have far better quality than most streaming services... and what will you do when your internet goes out?

I worked in local government office in Poland till the end of September 2022. They still use CDs (no not DVDs, the CDs) for archiving and transferring data between institution. Many data formats are specified in laws and those are not changed that often, they just bloat.

Hi there sir, I would like to add my own input into this. I actually got a blu ray drive so my pc could be an all-in-one build. I no longer use a tv to watch my movies but my monitor. I also like to backup old stuff through GOG so it is nice to save media as eventually, I feel all digital will die.

I won’t own a computer without one. Sucks that computers barely ever have them now and if they do it’s a laptop style drive and a flimsy one at that.

i have a wifi antenna that includes a cd so i temporarily plug it in and install the driver

contrary to popular belief, steam does not have every game ever made in its librarys and if u hit the flea market or have cd/dvd/video games collection like me theres quite a bit of these old forms of hardware that havent been added to steam/spotify/netflix. one great reason to keep one around if u or a friend have a gem of older video game thats not on steam, like dungeon siege legends of aranna expansion pack

Not a single word about backups, wow, the only last remaining purpose of these drives.

I still use CDs and DVDs. I'm happy my new laptop has a DVD drive. My tablet even plays DVDs. And that is such a convenience.

Now we have Blu-Ray drives in PCs and even in some laptops.

Aren’t optical driveslike CD or dvds better at storing information in the long run because they don’t have moving components that move when transferring data?

I want to use my Blueray more the problem is that there is nothing relesed on blueray. the last game I bought on DVD/Blueray was Fallout4. it came on one DVD that had nothing but a instaler on it (size like 500MG the game at launch was 10GB I think). so do the math on that one. it gone down hill from there.

I use my DVD Drive to install an earlier version of Microsoft Suite before they started bending you over for leasing fees.

Oh gosh the amount of hours on Tomb Raider; good memories

This is a vexed topic for me, being like you with a lot of legacy tech and media around. First use case is, these streaming services ain't free. But I have my library of movies... Secondly, the tech industry and consumer demand conspired to create an insane chain of dependence. Without the router, cable provider, web servers, etc, all the streaming is dead. Nowadays even mobile and wifi is another link that can break. So when things break, it's nice to have local alternatives. Thirdly, it used to be said thst your backups should be split over multiple types of media. So optical used to be the gold standard for longevity. Not sure if that is still true. But again, I would hate to rely on a cloud service for recovery, and I've had memory sticks and HDDs die... The other legacy use was the brief acceptance of music CDs in car audio, nowadays it's Bluetooth to your phone but only a few years ago I would burn a playlist on to a CDR and play it in the car... Scary how tech evolves so fast. Edit - then the audiophile would note the modern trend for mp3 is not lossless compression, so original audio on CD would in theory sound better than streamed music. That's subject to other variables tho. The nice thing with later optical drives was they could read and write pretty much anything. Early on the industry really got muddled up with disk formats like the insane +R / -R thing.

Streaming is all butterflies and rainbows until they decided that the shows and films you like to watch don't 'fit their business model' and delete them from their catalogue. So rip the media you own into a digital format and create a home media centre.

Can blue ray disks safely stores data for long term as compare to any other storage device ???

it is essential for people who care about their data...backup...optical disks are the best value for money physical backup that 'you' can own...cloud is not yours and they can blow up any time

Optical media still has it's place under the sun. Owning and preserving the physical copy of a music album, movie or a piece of software/game is one of the reasons. Streaming services don't have everything you would want to watch/listen and even if they have that piece at the moment, removing it from the service is a matter of time. Same thing with game stores and the dreaded software as a service. Backups are a viable reason as well. If treated right and stored properly optical discs have a shelf life of 15+ years.

I have a blu ray rewriter. Reasons being: 1) I have a big CD collection which I rip to iTunes 2) I have a decent collection of old PC games which still can’t legally be bought on any store platform 3) I have about 700 blu ray movies which I rip to a Plex server

flashı dvye atmamın sebebi silinmemesi bazılarıda yedekliyorum.üstlerinide yazıyorum bulmak için.

I'm building a pc soon and I don't intend to bother with any dvd or hdds. I just want m.2 nvme drives and to keep it moving forwards. I have a portable one that came with my current pc though. So you don't have to fit one do you

OF COURSE!!!! DUH!!!!

I stored lots of documentary and games on DVD

I am old school I still need it

For the past 11 years, I never used an optical drive in a PC build. In the odd reason I had to, I use a really old USB dvd drive.

When I eventually build a pc, I plan on including an optical drive. No reason not to, right?

DVD can be used to install windows 11

12 years ago I was building a PC, bought DVD-RW drive in SATA since new board didn't have IDE, long story short I only connected power to drive but not SATA (data) as I didn't have cable for it that day. 12 years latter that drive is still in PC without SATA not connected. In those 12 years I nerved needed it once. Not even once. So not sure why we talk about this today 😂.

evet biraz masraflı dvd çalar cdler kalemi yedek kayıt ederken elektrik vs.fakat elinizdeki kıymetliyse ve bunu silinmesini istemiyorsanız göze almak zorundasınız.yoksa siliniyor uğraşıp duruyorsunuz çoğunuda unutuyorsunuz..

Do You Still Need a CD/DVD Drive For Your PC? YES VERY MUCH AND NEW CASES ARE UGLY FULL OF GLASS AND LITTLE METAL

How do i run my old cd software on windows 11. I have alot of them

no one needs optical drives anymore......but that doesnt stop me. im about to update to a blu ray drive so i can actually watch my blu rays on my pc. i still listen to cd's , watch dvd's and have physical pc games. im also 40 years old lol. i can imagine if i was in my teens or 20's id be 100% digital

For privacy it's good to save stuff in cd's, even in floppy disks. There is some sort of a.i that can access your computer and usb drives offline/online via magnetic fields and sciency blablabla hokkus pokkus. So if you have some shit you don't want noone to see or want to share but can't because some laws forbid truth, then cd's baby

YES I DO!!! I do a lot recording and mixing and I do need a CD/DVD to burn my CDs and DVDs!!! 😁

I say yes for old school games that you can't get through online stores like the og warcraft 3

Still coming back for the voice. Little correction, if I may: DVD stands for digital versatile disc; so saying DVD disc is a bit redundant. 😊

No. I got rid of my cds and dvds few years ago and never looked back

I have old special occasions memories saved on disc

Yeah you can get older games on digital marketplaces, but if you already have a collection of games on physical media such as discs, why would you wanna spend potentially hundreds of dollars repurchasing them

Even back in 2004 i bought games on steam and not discs.

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I use a DVD and Blu-ray drive. I rip all my content to my PC, and stream it on Plex.

I think most people don't appreciate the fact that optical drives are actually a secure data backup solution for long term keeping, just because all USB flash drives are total garbage when in comes to reliability. Want to backup your photo collection? Write it into DVD, cover it from scratch and dust and keep it for 10 years in the drawer. Also, while i don't use DVD disks for a decade now, i absolutely love classic design ATX cases with HDD and ODD expansion slots like my Fractal Design R2 XL and really dislike these modern looking front RGB fan filled cases...

you've played portal 2? cool :D

dvdye ihtiyaç var çünki dvd içi silinmiyor fakat flashlar çöküyor korumaya geçiyor ve hepsini kurtarmak mümkün olmuyor ve pahalı kurtarma programları dosyalarımıza erişiyor ve bu programları sildikmi bilgisayar çökebiliyor.benim herşeyim dvdlerde.malesef artık mahallemde bulamıyorum bilgisayarda kalmadı. internetde artık harici bağlanan dvdler var..internetdekilerde pahalı .dvdli bilgisayarlar hep eski ve kullanılmış.2.el.2.elde güvenemiyoruz.bilgisayar flash diskim dvd çöktü.dvdler elimde kaldı.dvdlerin bir kısmını yedekliyorum birine birşey oldumu yedeğini yedekliyorum.yeğenimin kasa dvdsinide laptopa bağlayamadım çok zor durumdayım.

but the most important you left out is that you have to pay to download what you wanted surely you are not that ignorant

ayrıca dvdler flash bellekten daha ucuza gelir.daha ekonomiktir.

Also I HATE the Cloud since Normies are such NPCs you don't own the severs that the "Cloud" is on!

Why were they downloading games? Were they 14???

Dvd and cd are vorus free!!!

Dvd player 😂💀

I dont think you need it, I also think hdds are dead and should only be used on server racks

Buddy probably we still need dvd cuz china invented something crazy you need to read about it😅