Originally Posted By: mlord
USB external DVD drives are compact, cheap, and one only needs a single unit to service a handful of PCs/Macs.


I've not needed an optical drive in the last several years (except for ripping media, and I have a specific PC for that). If I'm installing a PC, I use a USB stick. That said: I do have an external DVD drive; I've just never used it.
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