With how things are these days, I see more and more often that people choose to omit an optical drive from their builds. Or they have only an external one which they plug in for when they need it. I for one still have it in my PC and plan to have it in the future as I have tons of boxed games. Whenever I can install a game faster from a disc, I'm glad I don't have to download tons of GBs over my "not stellar" internet.

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Yes, all my computers have dvd drives but in the future I will not mind not having one in the laptop. See no reason to omit a disc drive in a desktop though unless it is a mini pc that you hang behind the monitor or something like that.

So, yes, you do. Working or not wasn't in the question. :-P

I have a DVD-RW drive, and planning to replace it with a BluRay drive one of these months. Not yet sure whether or not to get BluRay-RW or BluRay-ROM/DVD-RW.

Yes, but haven't used it ever since I bought my laptop 2.5 years ago.

My gaming laptop doesn't have an optical drive, so I use an external DVD burner and an older Blu-ray burner for when I need'em.

When I'll get to build a new desktop, I definitely want a new generation (internal) UHD Blu-ray burner to watch movies and burn disks with me...

Yes a BD/DVD-RW. Recently found the time to rip all my audio CDs to disk... Found stuff I didn't know I had o_0

Technically my DVD drive is still in there but last time I upgraded the mobo I didn't bother hooking it back up. I stuck with discs a long time, far longer than most, but when I gave them up 6ish years ago I really gave them up and got rid of them all, so there's nothing left to use the drive with. I never watch movies on my PC as I have a nice home theater setup.

I have one sitting in the case, but it's not connected. It's old and IDE and the motherboard doesn't have IDE. :P

Never use deebudees anymore anyway and last time I moved, I ditched all my games, cases etc and with the future.

I have one but I can not remember when I used it last time...

Yes my main computer has always had an CD drive. Currently it's blu-ray.
I haven't had to use it for gaming for probably 10 years since I long ago imaged all of my CD games but I do use it to backup the contents of driver discs and I'm slowly converting my movie collection with makemkv. I do have an external drive as well but I have a full tower and there's no sense in letting that space go to waste.

Yes, but I honestly can't recall the last time I used it seriously.

I have a DVD drive in my PC but I can't remember the last time I used it for gaming. I have quite a number of mainly older boxed games but I've either re-purchased those games on gog, or found drm-free disc images to use from other sources.

Yes. Aside from still having some old games on disc that aren't available to buy anywhere (eg, Outrun 2006, NOLF 1-2, original Age of Empires 1-2 / Mythology, etc), there are also existing large CD / DVD collections. I have a Netflix subscription for "throwaway" movies, etc, but for the ones I want to keep (plus the 95% of classic titles that aren't even on Netflix's limited catalogue), it's disc all the way. Same goes for still need one for ripping CD's for music even if I don't play them back on a CD player anymore.

Yes, the desktop has a bluray read/writer which has never been used. The laptop doesn't. It's been years since I used any form of external storage other than hdd or pen drive. Imaged all my boxed games years back (a large undertaking) but now I don't need to refer to them other than the few which don't have nocd patches. They will go the way of floppy drive bays, some will hold on to them for a while as playing movies etc. but storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper and smaller.