I don’t understand the connection between windows 10 eol and ODD’s.
W11 has new hardware requirements, forcing many to upgrade machines. New machines don’t commonly come with ODDs anymore.
Yeah I mean I guess a surge of orders makes me think people are buying them they didn’t have them already, they’re pretty trivial to transfer to a new computer if you’re upgrading to a new case or whatever and it’s not like the technology has changed in any meaningful way afaik. The few times I’ve needed to rip something myself I just booted up an ancient laptop with a bdd
five and a quarter bays are great. You can put anything in them and the space allows for more air flow and you can even put fans in them.
I remember the good old times when Bowman-II (not a brand, that was my home-built PC) had 12 5.25in drive bays…
I have a Fractal Pop XL because it has two 5.25" drive bays (filled with a BD-XL and a BD/HD-DVD drive respectively). It doesn’t make sense to rob yourself of the choice to use physical media, especially at home were the space they take up doesn’t really matter.
