When USB drives first arrived, vendors used CD-ROM ratings whereby each "x" equaled 150KB per second. For example, a 90x drive meant 13.5MB/sec (90 x 150KB). See CD-ROM drives and solid state.

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead… ...

It’s even possible to have the flash drive emulate a U3 CD ROM drive for OS installs and other purposes. It’s a great dive into how USB drives work on a low level, and how the firmware and ...

We looked at four USB CD-RW drives: the CD Cyclone USB CD Revo 4x4x32x, the EZQuest Boa CDR/W 4x4x32x USB Ext. PM, the Iomega CD-RW Predator USB Drive, and the LaCie USB CD-RW 4x4x24x.

My Dell C400 does not have a CD driver or floppy and will not boot to usb. Also I don’t have access to a usb floppy drive or usb cd-rom drive. I can install the C400 hdd onto a desktop so I can ...

Backpack-brand external drives were delivering multimedia via the parallel port way back before laptops came with CD-ROM drives or PC Card slots, and they’re still at it: The Triple Play is so named ...

My DELL Inspiron 710m Laptop's hard drive died. So I replaced it and now need to install Windows XP on it--here's the problem: The DVD drive is broken (can't just replace the drive either because ...

That might have just got a lot cooler and more expensive with the Wizpy, a flash-based USB device that does the same thing, but comes in pearly white. Skip to main content Open Navigation Menu ...