With a hefty 34% discount, this plug-and-play CD/DVD drive with 5Gbps data transfers is an absolute steal on Amazon.

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 ...

Many years ago, when Apple introduced the first MacBook Air, the company also announced an accessory called the Apple USB SuperDrive – which is essentially a CD and DVD player that can be connected to ...

Apple today added the Mid 2012 model of the 13-inch MacBook Pro to its obsolete products list worldwide, according to its website. Released in June 2012, this 13-inch MacBook Pro model was the last ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the ...

Remeber that Mythbusters episode where they tested if CDs could shatter in drives? Well, I don't remember their exact conclusion, but I can now say from personal experience - myth 100% ...

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 ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

Q: I'm thinking about getting a CD-RW drive for my personal computer so that I can store family photos digitally (and so my daughter can make audio CDs using MP3 files). The problem is that I have no ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...