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June 18, 2014 6:20:42 AM

Hi Guys

My desktop PC internal DVD drive died. Just want the communities opinion if I should purchase a external DVD/writer drive or internal. Main purpose of the drive would be to install games and rip music into iTunes. Would this be a problem with a slimline external DVD drive that is powered via USB? My worry would be if it was underpowered.

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June 18, 2014 6:29:36 AM

Either should work fine, but an internal drive is often better.
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June 18, 2014 6:34:44 AM

You should have no problem with an external drive.

My advice would be to go external, given that less and less is done with optical drives, why waste space in the PC case? Also, having an external drive saves you having one for more than one PC, or the hassles of uninstalling and re-installing if you upgrade your PC, etc
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June 18, 2014 6:40:15 AM

yeah internal drive is better, but the reason why I was considering an external drive was because I don't use the drive that often, and not having a internal drive causes less clutter in the PC with wires and bays
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June 18, 2014 6:45:21 AM

snowctrl said:
You should have no problem with an external drive.

My advice would be to go external, given that less and less is done with optical drives, why waste space in the PC case? Also, having an external drive saves you having one for more than one PC, or the hassles of uninstalling and re-installing if you upgrade your PC, etc


That's what I'm thinking. Do you think USB drives are underpowered? All the drives I've been looking at do not have it's own powerlead.

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June 18, 2014 6:49:38 AM

It's my understanding that USB slots are either powered or not - so if you plug in a device that needs power from the USB slot, it simply won't turn on.

I guess you might have the 'underpowered' problem from a poor quality motherboard... what are you running? Anything from the big guns ie MSI, Gigabyte, AsRock, etc would be fine I would have thought.

Easiest solution - buy an external from a shop to which you can return it you have trouble... but I doubt you will
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June 18, 2014 6:52:13 AM

Joseph DeGarmo said:
If you have USB 3.0, then get a USB 3.0-compatible drive, like this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Pawtec-External-Aluminum-Optical-...


Surely the backwards compatibility of USB will mean that buying a drive originally meant for USB 2 will be no different in a USB 3.0 slot... I would think that calling a DVD drive 'USB 3' is a marketing ploy.... BluRay may need USB 3, but not DVD...
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June 18, 2014 7:42:46 AM

only point of a blueray drive is for watching/ripping movies on pc's. Hard drives and cloud have made them obsolete for backing up data.
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June 18, 2014 7:51:04 AM

Pixel03 said:
only point of a blueray drive is for watching/ripping movies on pc's. Hard drives and cloud have made them obsolete for backing up data.


It depends how much data you have to back up.... Anyone doing video work can generate far more data than is practical for backing up to cloud....
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