Optical drives are all but extinct, but Nero is still around. Albeit in a smaller fashion, the tool is still burning CDs and ...

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

Not entirely certain this is the appropriate forum, but I'm looking for a good/reasonable quality enclosure to repurpose one of the optical drives (CD/DVD RW) I saved from previous laptops. A quick ...

Sony Electronics on Monday said it is shipping blue laser-based optical storage drives and related products to equipment manufacturers and system integrators. The new Professional Disc for Data ...

The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...

TL;DR: Fujitsu is reintroducing optical drives in new notebooks amidst Japan's growing demand for Windows 11 PCs that support playing physical media, as people abandon their old Windows 10 hardware ...

TL;DR: The Cooler Master MasterBox CM695 mid-tower case combines retro design with modern features, including a 5.25-inch optical drive bay, support for large graphics cards, and multiple HDD/SSD bays ...

Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with the robots ...

Suddenly Game-Key Cards won’t seem so bad. We have a new rumor about the PlayStation 6. KeplerL2 has been sharing insider information about the upcoming console in the past few months. Last month, he ...