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.