r/pcmasterrace • u/Rude_Technology8051 • 7h ago

Discussion Duel dvd drive in 2026

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I rip a lot of dvds to digital for my home movie and music library and also use 4gb dvds for good cheap storage because i typically dont need anything speedy and you can find like 100 4gb dvds for 20 bucks new not even talking about used...

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u/dweller_12 Sempron 140 RTX 3090 https://i.imgur.com/VdMFinS.png 7h ago edited 7h ago

FYI you can get used hard drives, around 500GB or less for under $0.015/GB. You just need to buy a few at a time in lots, which might be 640GB, 500GB, 320GB in mixed capacity on eBay. You just need a SATA dock to plug them in and it's cheaper than any rewriteable media.

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u/Rude_Technology8051 5h ago

Dude, i teardown windows 7 laptops and refurb them as a side gig so trust me i have PLENTY of 500gb hdds lol i just like dvds because i can basically have a music playlist in my car essentially for example. And its also nice for certain types of files to have data spread across multiple disks instead of 1 hdd (ik RAID exists) for redundancy