When's the last time you used your computer's CD drive or DVD drive?

[Nz17]

I ask as I hardly ever use mine. The reason is that both optical drives developed problems with reading and writing discs, primarily concerning reading and writing CD's. I know I should replace them with at least one fully functional drive, but it just doesn't seem like it is worth the effort. I have a lot of old games on discs, but most of what I play or buy is digital downloads these days, with lots of purchases from Kickstarter or GOG.com for example. Most of my PC gaming time is spent with TF2, and that is Valve's game through Steam, so you know that's all tied up in that. And as far as using the drive(s) to watch DVD's, most of my video watching these days is either television or on my Linux PC using YouTube, Twitch.tv, Amazon, Netflix, etc. So I guess you might say it boils down to habits and convenience.

[fluid_matrix]

I honestly can't remember. I do know that the next time I purchase a laptop, I will forgo the optical drive. Just doesn't seem necessary anymore.

[Gameguy]

Just a few days ago. PC disc drives are a great way of verifying that discs are fully readable using software to read through the entire disc.

[Tanooki]

I bought a couple of used CDs in the last week and I dumped the contents using CDEX to nice MP3 files for my iphone, computer and tablet.

Before that, it has been a few months since I shoved in something that really needed it. Truth be told it really gets little use other than when I need to reinstall stuff I have on discs. I have no interest in using it as a CD music player, have a decent store bought thing with 2 speakers in the room here if I want to go that far with it.

[Atarileaf]

I've been playing Sims 2 on an older Windows XP computer and the disk is always in the drive so I guess my answer is a few hours ago.

[WoodyXP]

I used a 5.25 floppy yesterday. Haven't used an optical drive in a couple years.