The design of current PCs is to have no physical removable media drives. High end gaming PCs especially try to be as minimalist as possible. No drives at all. Just an M2.SSD hidden out of sight. It does make it look super clean and tidy.

But this does assume we all now purchase digital downloads only and don't need access to anything we already own on disc. This only really a reality for those on very fast broadband too.

Do you still run physical drives in your PC?

I still have a Sony Blu-Ray writer in mine. Mainly to backup stuff and also for burning retro stuff. But also because I do still have a lot of older stuff on physical media.

But if I build a new gaming PC I probably won't have any as I've only bought digital games via Steam for years. But I would keep the existing system, or build a dedicated second system for legacy devices.
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