On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 10:40 -0600, home user via users wrote: > When I ordered my desktop, I was told by 2 different salesmen that cases > are no longer made with 5 1/4 inch slots. So I cannot do a blu-ray > drive with a SATA interface. I had to order an external drive, and > everything that I saw was limited to USB-2 connections.
I'm somewhat surprised at that. Maybe their supplier doesn't offer them. They're certainly around. But do they really mean cases without the space for CD/DVD/BluRay drives poking through the front of the chassis, or are they thinking of internal hard drive bays? HDDs are getting less common, and they're the only drive left that is that size inside the domesticated PC. All the SSDs I see are either 3.5 inch laptop sized, or the ones that fit onto the motherboard M.2 header. This reminds me that I really must get another DVD drive, while I still can. Mine's gone wonky. And being able to burn an audio CD is still important to me, if I want to give someone a recording of music we've played. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
