Plenty of people are replacing the optical drive in the original hardware with an optical drive emulator as they begin to fail, and with that comes the option for several other modifications to ...

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 ...

For many of us, the optical drive is a thing of the past. Once considered essential, the technology is no longer featured in the average laptop,where their omission saves plenty of precious space ...

Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor the climate pollutants in the ...

As the gaming world waits for the PlayStation 5 Pro, scalpers are reselling the console's separate, attachable disk drives at ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Warsaw, and the University of Iceland have demonstrated that by optical means it ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

As you might be aware, modern Apple and Windows laptops don’t come with DVD/CD drives. This is where devices like Apple SuperDrive come in to help you play, read and write these optical drives ...

The PS5 hard drive is proving difficult to find in stores, and scalpers are obviously taking advantage of this with insanely ...