5.25" bays

[Voodoo Rufus]

Since when did 5.25" bays become a "rarity"?

I can understand OS installs on USB thumbdrives and game downloads via broadband, but are people migrating to USB external optical drives now or what? Fan controllers?

 

[EarthDog]

A couple/few years ago?

I have barely any optical media around personally.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Most people are using PWM fan control via internal splitters/controllers now. The rare times that I need to use an ODD I'll grab the USB external drive.

I'll go find a download for something before popping a disk in these days.

 

[Maviryk]

We're getting old. IMHO the trend is towards streaming digital content. No reason for physical drives unless its on a thumbdrive.

As for fan controllers, I see that more and more Mobo's have integrated control... and along with hardware becoming more energy efficient, external fan controllers may become obsolete.

On a side note.. Social groups are killing bulletin boards, like this one. What's the average age of active users on this forum?

 

[OC-NightHawk]

I had two optical drives in my Dual Xeon system. I had one with my Core 2 Duo/Quad system and that drive got handed down to my X99 system. My AMD 2700X doesn’t have one. I haven’t actually used an optical drive in many years outside of taking my dvds and Blu-ray’s and making digital copies for my media server. Then those discs sit on display on the shelf never to be touched again other then when browsing what to watch.

I could see putting the bays back in for other things that used the space though.

 

[ihrsetrdr]

I never adopted to Blue Ray, but I don't watch movies on my computers, aside from streaming. Still use 5.25 DVD(and CD) drives, but most of my cases are <cough> "older"...

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

I just use a Plextor DVD-RW. Useful for making CDs for my car, but with both cars now on Bluetooth I don't even do that any more.

Yep. Just getting old I suppose. Maybe I'll find a SATA to USB box to put my Plextor in for the next rig.

I must say, USB3 thumb drive reads and write speeds are pretty nuts.