One of my friends asked me for a way to not have to place the DVD's into the DVD Rom to play games as for he is CONSTANTLY swapping between games and horrible at putting the games back into their original sleeves / cases and come up missing on him.

I guess he tried buying some software through Paragon that emulates an optical drive and CREATES images of the original discs and while this works on some games it doesnt work on all games without errors.

I told him that I would check into a Carousel Drive similar to the CD changers that are placed into vehicles which store discs and can read them when needed. But the only problem is that I cant seem to find such a thing for a computer? The closest thing I could come up with in google search was this DEVICE that can serve up the discs to you to take the disc and place it them from this storage unit into the drive and then when done place it back into the carousel. The only problem is that this is not the best solution for him. The good thing is that he has money and can spend up to $1500 on such a device, I just need to pair him up with a device if one can be found.

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The only other thing I can think of, and this is a really sloppy solution would be to tell him to pick out say 8 of the most played games and buy 8 external USB DRIVES and populate them with the games he will frequently run that require the original disc 1 in the optical drive to play. But if he had th option to place all game CD and DVD's into a carousel like this organizer that also had a built in CD/DVD drive reader functionality that would be the best solution for him.

He also OWNS some games that you can get through steam, but he owns the original disc and having to play specific ones that made their way to Steam would require having to purchase a duplicate game which seems wasteful. I have run into the same issue myself with games that I bought on disc in jewel case which are available through steam and if you want them accessible to steam, you need to buy a copy through them, but the good thing for my few titles is that they had deals where the price of the game through steam was like $4.99 vs $20 which I paid for the original game with the jewel case etc.