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  • I suspect the internals of the optical drives are only made by a few manufacturers, whilst there are thousands of brands on amazon the difference will largely be styling/branding. I would just buy the cheapest and treat as disposable but LG is a solid brand.

    Hard drives are so cheap on a per gig basis that it rarely makes sense to recycle old hard drives.

    As for ripping cds - what is this, the 90s 😄

  • Depending on how critical the data is, you may benefit from some sort of protection against data corruption. It doesn't matter if your film loses a frame, but you will care if some less resilient document won't open as it's corrupted.

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