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 ...

Grizzled PC vets will know some of it already, like having more than one optical drive on hand (and of different model, if not make) to see if at least one of them can read a fussy disc; imaging ...

Samsung has introduced a new optical disc drive, the TruDirect SE-S204S, which allows users to “directly” create DVDs and burn digital content through a PC without the need for a hard drive.

The European Commission is investigating thirteen optical drive players of price fixing shenanigans, and if found guilty, they could be hit with large fines. That's all well and good, but with ...

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So despite the digital age we live in, external optical drives should still have a firm place in our technology landscape. They are readily available and can be purchased for less than $20 on Amazon .

We've dug inside 3 types of drives for storing data: hard disk, solid state drive, and optical. Taken them apart, looked at how they worked, and left a mess everywhere, as usual.

Don't use the optical drive in your Unibody MacBook Pro anymore? Put that space in your laptop to better use by replacing the optical drive with a hard drive or SSD.

The optical drive exemption was opposed by the Motion Picture Association, Alliance for Recorded Music, and Entertainment Software Association ...