[OPLINTECH] New Computers with Optical Drives

Wed Jun 14 12:33:24 EDT 2017

We are a client of Level9.  Our service population is roughly 20,000.  Starting around 2011, we did away with optical drives on the public PCs and provide an external DVD drive.  We rarely get asked for the external drive.  Most patrons are bringing in USB drives or using cloud storage (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).  We've had no complaints about not having the internal optical drive.  In regard to staff PCs, while a few of us have internal optical drives, most do not, and it has never been an issue.  The external DVD drive works fine.
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Chauncey G. Montgomery
Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library
44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074
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On 06/14/2017 12:16 PM, Chad Neeper via OPLINTECH wrote:
> I stopped including them a few years ago. Just keep a couple of external USB DVD-ROM drives at the circ/reference desk for the occasional one-offs that needs one. An external DVD-ROM drive might cost you in the vicinity of $50, but the cost of an internal DVD-ROM might cost in the vicinity of $25. So after dis-including the internal drives on two or three computers per external USB drive you buy, you'll start saving money.
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> They rarely get used in my libraries. I think the staff actually use them more than the patrons...which isn't really saying much. Had one library lose a USB drive and didn't know it for many months...nobody asked for it!
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> I'm working with mostly single branch, smaller libraries. YMMV.
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>     Has anyone that orders computers for libraries decided to get computers without optical drives yet? ____
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>     We are in the process of updating computers and I don’t see a lot of patrons using them anymore since software, music, videos and backups are being delivered over the Internet or through digital downloads. I have already seen most libraries making the switch over to SSD drives instead of using HDD drive. I guess it would make more sense to get a computer with a smaller footprint with a security attachment and then opt in for a couple of external optical drives if someone wants to use one.____
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