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 ...

November 21, 2007 Korean Electronics giant Samsung has introduced a new optical disc drive - the TruDirect SE-S204S - which allows users to “directly” create DVDs and burn digital content through a PC ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

Combination CD-R/RW and DVD drive attains 7,800-Kbyte/s CD recording speed Claiming the fastest CD recording speed of any combination CD-R/RW and DVD optical disc drive, the SM-352 gives system ...

Yesterday we noted the release of new virtualization software from Parallels that allows the simultaneous running of Windows XP and Mac OS X. Today we focus on some troubleshooting issues presented by ...

If you depend on Apple MacBook for business computing tasks while you're on the road, you probably use the optical drive to perform necessary functions such as burning data backups to disc or for ...

TOKYO — Running toward a planned commercial launch in August, Fujitsu Ltd. began sample shipments Thursday of a new disk drive that will support the 2.3GB version of its rewritable magneto-optical ...

Optical disc devotees continue to find safe ports and harbors in Japan, with the release of the new FMV Note A laptop line (machine translation). This laptop range fuses modern features like a Windows ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. signed Thursday (Nov. 17) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they would establish a joint venture company in the optical disk drive business, aiming to be the ...

It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio in the Marvel universe. This is all about our precious digital data. We need to store it somewhere ...