When is the last time you even opened one?

You can push the little button thing with a pin.

A decade, probably.

I used an old USB DVD drive for ripping old DVDs before throwing it all away a few months ago.

A few days ago, burning discs for my ps2.

Last week. Bought The Dark Knight rises on DVD to finally watch the movie. I know it's late and cheap but I refuse to pay more than 7€ for a fucking Batman movie and it simply catched my eye in the store.

No idea. My dvd drive isn't even connected, it's sitting in the bay but has no cables connected to it.

I don't even have one

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reminder you can swap it out for another drive

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I have to get one of this asap to dual boot win/linux. On the other hand I need more a new pc

I didn't extra $200 on my laptop for a blu-ray burner for future pirating on newer consoles and didn't even need it. Never used it once still. Laptop is 6 years old i use it as a htpc still. 3610qm i7 and 880m gpu

Yesterday.

i bought a physical copy of a game like a year ago because it was on sale and had to insert it for steam

>Being this retarded.

yah, some linux iso won't boot unless its written to dvd. debian used to be that way

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Constantly on accident with my t420.

Or a battery, in most laptops.

anyway I occasionally burn backup discs and leave them at a family member's house when I visit. I can't afford to have everything backed up off-site, but for a couple gigs of important stuff, DVDs are an easy way to do it.

I couldn't get the Thinkpad BIOS update disc to boot from a USB drive. I even tried extracting some El Torino stuff from it and use that, but it still didn't boot. But it booted just fine when I connected an external optical drive.

I removed it from my computer in 2010 because I had not used it in over a year or more at the time.
When I built a new computer in 2012, I did not buy one at all.

I think I may genuinely have 10 years to use one of these.

I unplugged mine a year ago because I got another ssd and couldn't be arsed to do cable management

Steam is what really killed it for me. Pre-Steam probably used it every day.

Yesterday, tried installing drivers for my network adapter

I use it regularly to be honest. I boot Clonezilla live CD using the USB DVD drive I bought along with my ultrabook without any drive.

today.
I bought a new external DVD drive from an old stock a week ago for $13.23 to watch some old DVDs

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This morning when I accidentally hit the button moving my laptop

take a staple, bend it straight and put it in the little hole in your drive. that will open the tray without being connected to anything.

Dunno 8 months ago? i even reused the sata cable to install a new HDD, best decision ever made

Working on defence project here, we use them everyday for classified shit.

Yesterday, I made a Windows 7 DVD for a friend.

I like archiving TV shows and documentaries and stuff on blurays since I think that in 5 years the internet will be heavily limited in content.
Future generations will thank us data hoarders.

like an hour ago...

I usually use my laptop's drive to listen CDs, is easier to focus if I just disconnect from wifi and I don't have music files on it. My desktop's drive is unplugged since a couple years ago, when I bought an HDD and didn't have a sata cable.

The other day to burn a CD for my shitbox car

What are you talking about, you dumb faggot?

yesterday to replace it with a secondary hdd

i did just to burn psx cds in my moms pc, cuz she has one

I have a couple of TBs worth of offline Blu-ray storage. I trust them a bit more than spinning HDDs in the long run.

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Ayy my nigga.

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2010. that's when Apple had the courage to invent laptops without CD drives

I do this too, for the same reason. A lot of the material I hoard is stuff that is hard to find now and that I have to rip myself. Only storing it on a hard drive with an external backup right now though, gonna get a RAID soon.

next time i'm buying a pc i won't even bother buying a disc drive, it's obsolete

>When is the last time you even opened one?
Today, I routinely listen to CD, watch blu-rays, and burn the occasional chucker disk.

I wouldn't mind buying digital music if I could actually get hifi material that isn't loaded up with DRM nonsense.

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Two days ago, I burned a copy of Windows 98 SE and installed it onto an old spare pc from 2001. No reason why...just got bored and felt like it. It's more fun than a virtual machine.

All the time. I prefer it to streaming absolutely everything and storing my data on somebody elses computer. Ripping CD's is my main source of music. I rip Blu-rays for movies, or just put in a DVD. I make critical backups on blurays. Optical media is great, getting a physical backup in addition to the data you rip is a plus
>CDs are usually perfect, they're higher quality/bit rate than spotify streamfags and they take up less space because it's not audiophool hi-res
>A Blu-Ray rip is just better because of the bitrate than what you get online

Internet speeds will increase and in the future streaming CD quality etc. will be easy and available everywhere, not just big american cities. Physical backups like Bluray or Mdisc will be around forever. If you get EMP'd it's still all there.

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a few days ago, dvd-rs are still the most practical way to do small backups

>yah, some linux iso won't boot unless its written to dvd.
>I couldn't get the Thinkpad BIOS update disc to boot from a USB drive.
Wish I had a dvd drive that way I didn't have to run my favorite OS using virtualization.

haven't had one for 7 years or so now. recently found an old CD I'd like to rip (some obscure 90s shit - no torrents to be found) but I can't because I don't have anything at home that could read CDs xD

I have the original nfs mw on disk, used it a couple of months ago

Once in a while, I have a few mdiscs loaded up with porn and memes for my great-great-grandchildren.

last time i used this is when i tried to hide bills of cash on my laptop.

Recently used it to start ripping my DVD collection. Seems like a better idea than paying for Netflix, or torrenting compressed files.

But DVDs are pop and play. It seems easier to keep them the way they are, or at least that's what I do. Ripping (then encoding) is a lengthly process and it seems better spent on Blurays, because they're such a bitch with DRM.

Unless yours are old or something, idk.

just watch the movies on movie forumz nerds rofl

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Why not just install Linux on the PC instead of booting into it all the time?

It's just handy not having to physically find and pop in the disc. I can hop around my Simpsons seasons without having to remove and replace discs.
I'm not even encoding them at this point - the files are really not THAT big.

if you look at it the wrong way it opens

A week ago I needed drivers for this PCI-E USB 3.0 card that wouldn't work out of the box on Win 7.

I'll get around to popping in my Spiderman trilogy movies somenight.

Yeah that's true. Speaking of TV shows blurays are a pain to do. Theyre all nameless so you have to figure out what each episode is. Damn it.

I removed my ODD and replaced it with an empty caddy on my T420, just so I'd stop accidentally opening it when I pick it up.

Yesterday. Installing Windows on a 9 year old laptop

Every day.

Bought mass effect trilogy on CD cause fuck wasting my bandwidth and PC space aswell as I'd like to actually own the game rather than just lease it from steam.
Must say mass effect 1's graphics have really aged well

Just use a USB one if you rarely use it.
RAID on your laptop with the internal one and one in the caddy was gold.

Last year on accident while using my friend's laptop.
Built this computer last summer without one, figured I'd get around to putting one in but still haven't, just don't need it.

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A linux distro is installed on the HDD. But I need a dvd (rEFInd) to get around the custom firmware on this stupid pre-built (HP). This is my punishment for not building my own box.

>not using m-disk
what a faggot

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For Blu-ray or DVD?

What is this? Some type of cup holder? Why is there a hole in the middle? I haven't heard of CD-R before. Is it a brand name? What is that bigger thing that it's poking out of? Like an armrest or something?

I opened my BD Drive less than 24 hours ago, i have massive quantities of DVDs and BDs to rip and encode.

>because they're such a bitch with DRM
The DRM used on standard Blurays isn't functionally different than the form used on DVD. It's only with 4K Bluray that you have to download a key from a server the first time you wanna play it.

about a week ago when i fell asleep on the couch with laptop on my belly and the fucker dropped to the floor

That filename

Remind me, what is that again?

I burn audio cds for my 2001 honda civic

yesterday

i regularly rip music for what.cd and waffles

I am constantly burning Verbatim CD-Rs and CD-RWs for my retro PCs and CD-based consoles. Once every 2 weeks at the very least.
Nowhere near the average use case, and I have no real reason to use one otherwise, but there it is.

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Close to a decade maybe

Use mine pretty frequently.

I recently copied the contents of all my Sims 2 discs to my external hard drive so I could install all of them without the CD if I ever needed to reformat, with all the CD keys written in a text file.

Also reinstalled Windows 7 over Windows 10 recently and had to use a DVD+RW since it won't install from a USB without drivers.

Two days ago i removed the internal support bracket for disks etc in my enthoo pro.
We live in the future now.

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I opened one about a week ago to rip some wii games

Had to rip a few CDs two years ago, otherwise not since 2011.

i still use it to install some older games, shit even doom came with a disk. Took me a bit to realize that the disc only had like 7 of the 60 fucking gigs....

Yesterday, burnt some MP3 into CDs for a shitbox.
Why cheap car radios with USB flash are so shitty?

I have 2 DVD drives in my main build. One can read Blu-ray. The other a normal high speed drive. I use the normal one for ripping regular DVDs and CDs (older movies, anime, and all my music) and of course use the Blu-ray one for all my Blu-ray discs.

I then encode everything as much as I can without losing noticeable quality and upload to my server.

Today, pulled a DVD out of my living room media PC

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you can rip wii games without using a hacked wii now? i wish i knew that before sitting through hours of waiting for clean rip to finish last week.

My work pc when i bumped it by accident.

Or technically my ps4 playing gravity rush or dmc

Why is there a thread about this at least once a week?
Who cares?

Last week I had to burn a CD with my thesis.
Before that though, it's been almost a decade I think? My current desktop doesn't even have an optical drive. The only thing I own that reads optical drives is my 2010 laptop.

Three or four days ago when I ripped some DVDs so I could watch them.