I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.<BR><BR>(I've updated the ...

Does your laptop even have a DVD drive anymore? Mine sure doesn’t. Neither did the one I owned before. So, what can you do when you actually have to use a DVD or CD? Well, you can grab an Amicool ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

The very last Apple MacBook Pro to feature a CD/DVD drive inside has now officially been added to the company's list of obsolete products worldwide, according to the company's website. The change was ...

Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

Apple ditched the optical drive from most Macs about a decade ago—far before many pundits thought the company should. You could still buy an Apple-branded USB SuperDrive for reading and burning CDs ...

The latest version of macOS Ventura breaks compatibility with Pioneer's lineup of USB-connected CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives for the Mac. The root cause of the issue is unclear at this time, but Pioneer has ...

For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that moves ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...