Are optical drives necessary?

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I will be building a new computer in about a week, and one component in question is the optical drive. Music/movies, I stream online. Games, I download digitally. Drivers and software I download and I install OS's from a USB drive. I'd like to ask if there is a key use for the optical drive that I'm missing that would make me need it.
 
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Not really. It's possible your new build won't be able to connect to the internet to download drivers after installation due to the lack of a LAN driver but you can put that on a flash drive from another PC. Aside from that, there's nothing that critically needs a DVD drive.

They are helpful, and I still use them from time to time. In case there's a problem (hopefully not) they can be used to boot diagnostic or other disks, though it should be possible to use USB sticks for that also.
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Not really. It's possible your new build won't be able to connect to the internet to download drivers after installation due to the lack of a LAN driver but you can put that on a flash drive from another PC. Aside from that, there's nothing that critically needs a DVD drive.

They are helpful, and I still use them from time to time. In case there's a problem (hopefully not) they can be used to boot diagnostic or other disks, though it should be possible to use USB sticks for that also.
 
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