Unless you're looking to download and burn backups so you don't have to use your originals there really isn't a reason for one.

Unless you're looking to burn footage from events to a disk

Due to harddrives being pretty cheap now days its just as easy to stream your downloaded backups from your PC, saving the need for another device being plugged in.

Alternately if you wanted to rip your originals to your harddrive it could be usefull, but then again having unauthered complete bluerays sitting on your PC for streaming seems like a waste of space.

Out of curiosity, the devices may be cheap, but what's the media worth?

Come to think of it, if you're needing to replace your optical drive anyway, why not.

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