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 ...

Since it makes no apparent sense for optical disc drives, eg CD-ROM drives or DVD-ROM drives, to work at ATA-33 or even ATA-66 speeds there would superficially be no good reason other than marketing ...

Toshiba Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today revealed the details of their new joint venture for optical-disk drives (ODD), as initially announced in a memorandum of terms announced on ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...