LG 14x SATA Internal Blu-ray Rewriter $50 + Free Shipping

LG 14x SATA Internal Blu-ray Rewriter $50 + Free Shipping. Thumb Score: +17. Last time it was this price was two years ago. Some slickdealers willl argue optical drives are obsolete. Optical drives still have some advantages. 1) Check out dvds or blurays free from the public library. 2) Blurays have higher video/audio quality than online streaming. 3) Digital platforms can shutdown. You might lose your content. Some people prefer to own their content instead of renting. 4) Data stored on an Mdisc is protected from deletion or ransomware encryption. Alternative backup medium. Hard drives are a low cost backup option for large quantities of data. Might be good to also have a backup of the most critical data on mdisc.