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Anyone know how to test external optical disc drives at a thrift store? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In short I need a cheap external disc drive and dont want to cough up the 20$ and buy online so thrift store it is. I cant really come up with a way to test these usually usb powered drives besides somehow setting up a computer or asking the workers for help (doubt they will). Does anyone have an idea to narrow down if a drive is defective or should i just take a chance and hopefully the store has a return policy?

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[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

You could try to plug them into a powerbank and put in a disk. See if it spins up normally. It is a bad sign if it repeatedly spins up or down.

I did not try if this works.