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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 209858" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>You can still add an external optical drive, connected through Firewire. Even Firewire 400 is still faster than the ATA bus used internally, so you won't have any speed loss.</p><p></p><p>But as MAC-simus said, with the actual drives, it really isn't much issue to have only one optical drive.</p><p>I had a PowerMac G4 MDD before (the only ever PowerMac able to take two optical drives). After adding a DVD-burner (it originally came with a Combo drive), I never really used the Combo anymore. I have to admit though that I rarely had to make CD-to-CD copies... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 209858, member: 5184"] You can still add an external optical drive, connected through Firewire. Even Firewire 400 is still faster than the ATA bus used internally, so you won't have any speed loss. But as MAC-simus said, with the actual drives, it really isn't much issue to have only one optical drive. I had a PowerMac G4 MDD before (the only ever PowerMac able to take two optical drives). After adding a DVD-burner (it originally came with a Combo drive), I never really used the Combo anymore. I have to admit though that I rarely had to make CD-to-CD copies... :cool: [/QUOTE]
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