One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Designed specifically for professional storage applications, such as document and medical imaging, e-mail archiving, multimedia projects, graphic design, and audio/video editing/authoring, the ProDATA ...

Combination CD-R/RW and DVD drive attains 7,800-Kbyte/s CD recording speed Claiming the fastest CD recording speed of any combination CD-R/RW and DVD optical disc drive, the SM-352 gives system ...

If all you plan to do with your netbook is surf the web, check your email, and maybe enjoy some downloaded music and movies, you might not even notice the missing disc drive. But if you want to ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Quanta Storage will file an appeal against a US court ruling in favor of HP, which accuses the Taiwan-based company and six other disk-drive makers of participating in a price-fixing... As PC ...

About three years ago, I wrote a column about the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that involved optical disk drives. Think "DVD players," and "CD players," as well as various gaming platforms ...

Samsung have released details of two new external optical drives, the first is a slim portable Blu-ray writer the SE-506AB optical disk drive (ODD), and the other is the smart media hub SE-208BW ...

A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent that’s been recently made public might have potentially confirmed rumors that a new version of the Playstation 5 would launch with a detachable disc drive ...

(I could have gone with Other Hardware for this, but I bought drives for audio use hence this forum.) If you purchased a new computer with an internal ODD, a stand-alone ODD designed for internal use ...