who the fuck needs all that?
My tower doesn't have those either, provides more room for hard drives.

How do you make money with a floppy drive?

Ghosting/cloning.
Some of the best software that provides the best transfer is actually still floppy based.
Not that it is produced as floppy, but is roughly 13-15 years old I think.
And ghosting/cloning a drive costs a fortune for some people.

Well I'm one of those IT people...
Floppy -> attached via USB when needed
Optical drive -> Had one installed to set up my System, removed it afterwards. Now I only have one attached via USB 3
A card reader would be useful at times because it's faster than USB 2 to copy photos from my camera. But for that I have one in my laptop and I copy them to the network storage from there.

So my question still stands...

I really doubt you do IT. Or if you do you are losing a lot of bench time.
Yes, USB transfer is nice, and would save space.
However, USB 2.0 transfer speed is slow. 3.0 is obviously faster, but keep in mind, unless your using Extreme firewire, onboard is still the way to go.

Well it's pretty specialized, I don't handle clients and servers anymore therefore my use for those things is lower. I mainly need a COM port and a rollover cable to do my work.
However, a USB 3 attached DVD drive isn't slower than an onboard drive attached through SATA 2 and the SATA 3 ports of the average mainboard are mailny used for hard drives / SSDs. And with my bandwidth it's usually not much slower to download the software I need and install from the SSD than using a CD/DVD.

Well I stand corrected then. I suppose your method works best 'cause your not working with servers anymore.

Sadly I'm doing non-stop backups so I do need this stuff.

Truce? haha

Yeah I guess so, different fields of IT mean different hardware requirements.
And after all, I use what works for me, you use what works for you.

That's very true.
Sadly I'm screwed either way....
I'm an independent so I basically have to have everything.... and somehow fit it into an organised fashion in my car. haha.

er I would say optical drives are still a standard piece of equipment, I put them in every computer I build.

Wrong.
Floppies are still occasionaly used, some of the best ghosting software is on a floppy (and is like 15 years old).
And I'm sorry, but saying optical drives are almost useless is just plain out wrong.

Don't push it.

There are doors on the front. These are the kind of computers my school uses, it has card readers and floppy. No optical drives though.

Really? I'm not seeing where it would hinge, or lock.