Mac maker Apple Inc., which later this month will unveil its first sub-notebook design in over a decade, is likely to offer an external optical drive as an optional accessory, according to a new ...

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

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 ...

I have need of an external drive that can read cd and dvds for school (burned cd/dvd with radiographic images on it that I have do image analysis for). Some hospitals have not joined the 21st century ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

Which is the best DVD recorder drive for the Mac? Most Apple Mac computers no longer contain an Apple SuperDrive (Apple’s name for DVD burners attached to Macs), but you can buy an Apple USB ...

Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your Mac’s USB port you will see it appear on the desktop. You can also see it in a Finder window in the left ...