• Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lol, wooosh. A disc drive is an optical drive like a Blu-ray, DVD, or cd drive. Go ahead,show me the built in disc drive on a steam deck and not a USB connected one.

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t bought a game on optical media since 2003, that being Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne

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        1 year ago

        Likewise… I haven’t bought a game on optical media since the Wii.

        Hm… I’ve never bought PC software on a disc…!?

        And yet I have all these old Windows & Office & game discs… Man, hoarding tech is a weird habit.

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          1 year ago

          If you don’t mind me asking, what do you use it for?

          Also, HDD are hard disc drives, so technically hard drives can be disc drives too, that’s why the replier misunderstood you.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, I obviously interpreted that as meaning a hard disk drive (which SSDs are still commonly referred to as HDDs) since we were discussing modern PCs. Many years ago external physical file transfer mostly transitied away from using actual spinning disks to USB storage, and even that has been mostly supplanted by network connected storage for several years.

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      Man, I hear “disc drive” & I think “hard disc drive”. I’ve connected optical drives when USB boot wasn’t supported, but the last time I voluntarily used a disc drive was to test an M-Data disc burned to silicon. But yeah, none of these new devices have a HDD or optical (or floppy disk, for that matter).