My tower is quite far away from me. Some games need the dvd to work online as some no-cd/dvd patches are picked up as cheats by certain online servers cheat detections. So to battle having to get up and walk over to PC just to insert an online game disc I got one of these:
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Much easier, thanks dwayneh for the link. The one I was going to buy was just a dvd writer, but dwayneh found me a link for a dual layer writer for a couple of squid more. Even though it won't be used for burning, might as well have all the features.

