I Built a PC with a Disc Drive in 2024... 🤡

Not only did I need a new PC, but I also wanted it to have a disc drive! Which is honestly not the easiest thing to do here in 2024... not many disc drives available for purchase, and limited options on PC cases. So I decided to go old school with a non-RGB case that has a 5.25" drive! Let me know what you think, and check out the parts I used down below:

[SmokinSilicon]

Do you still use a disc drive here in 2024? If so, what for?

[jacobmartin]

I like the idea of keeping the Blu-ray drive alive

[erickbelow]

Home theater pc, ripping my blurays for personal use. Physical media is better than streaming right now if you are a home theater enthusiast.

[FlyboyHelosim]

It's crazy that Blu-ray disc playback was never made native in most operating systems. I bought a Blu-ray drive for my laptop a while back and had to do a ton of research and downloads to get it to play a disc. Even then it's still picky about what discs it plays.

[Keitosha]

This Blu-Ray drive is pretty good. Good choice on that. You can make this drive "UHD friendly" for backing up your HD/UHD Blu-ray collection. Highly recommended!

[galimirnund]

I have always had a disc drive in my builds. You can boot from them. Especially with older builds. I have a ASUS Prime B-460M with an i7. Building PC's is fun :)

[Demonis]

I collect and listen to music CDs still. I rip them into my harddrive so I can put them in my USB flash stick so I can listen to my library in my truck.

[Enders]

Love the simplicity and minimalism here. Its modest and cheap, a good way to show people that you don't need to blow thousands to have a working PC that can get things done. I'm sure for simple uses this is perfect. The disk drive is cool imo. There are lots of media that still begs to be used in the world that disk drive can do justice to... Also thats not a "hard drive" slot thats a floppy disk slot. lol

[SianaGearz]

Bloody hell forgot the ATX IO shield, is it your first time building a PC?

You know what would be interesting? Converting a laptop optical drive into a top loader, 3D printing a lid assembly, then cutting into the top of a modern case to fit it in. Need to disable or move the eject mechanism and need to move the endstop to detect the lid.

[stephaneneron]

Personally, I don't like a PC with RGBs... it serves no purpose at all except cluttering the case.

[sevenfacedsin]

Acquire Blu-Ray drive, disregard streaming subscriptions.
The public library is loaded with Blu-Rays and DVDs... All free.

[Steve.Cutler]

I buit pc's 20 years ago. I usually mounted the cpu on the motherboard before I installed it in the case.

[wolvesaywe]

You will soon find out why you need your films TV series music and games on physical

[stevesibaja]

Well done Sata DVD or Blu Ray Dual Layer Drive is recommended to connect to PC

[Lukiel]

I have a DVD player. Not blue ray. It was about $20. Also an aftermarket sliding drawer in another 5 1/4" slot to keep my USB sticks etc. in.

[tonycollazorappo]

I think the slot below the DVD drive is/was for a floppy drive. I'm old enough to remember those from way back in the day, LOL. The box looks like a case I would enjoy along with your DVD drive build. Good job buddy! 👍👍

[AnnihiIator]

nice to see the channel back, keep up the good work

[herbertholland]

I still have a Blu-ray Drive in my PC. I mostly use it to play my PS2, PS3 and XBOX games in emulators. I *can* make images of the discs and use them instead, but I have a lot of games and that would require a lot of storage. It's better to just keep them on Disc for now, and put them in the drive whenever I want to play them. I can also use it to watch movies that aren't on streaming services.

[TheSnoopyclone]

13:26 This was the same issue with dvds when dvd drives were first introduced to pcs back in the early days. To watch a dvd movie on pc, you needed codecs that could read the files. When you bought a dvd drive, you’d install the included software to watch the movie.

Tho day, this shouldn’t be an issue as formats are adapted quickly once it’s announced and people have made it into part of the standard.

[stephaneneron]

4:35 The motherboard backplate was screaming "Don't forget