Your homelab's secret weapon against ransomware is a $40 DVD drive ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360 owners looking to back up their physical game libraries for use with emulators – without ...

Consumers now have the right to repair and replace optical drives from any video games console that utilizes such drives. Thanks to proponents like iFixit and The Repair Association, the Library of ...

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 ...

Microsoft ended official support for Windows 10 last week, which means an entirely new population has been forced to move to Windows 11, or be left behind. While the tech-savvy gentry can work their ...

Can optical drives get new life? That’s the idea behind Hitachi-LG Data Storage’s concept of hybrid optical drives. First shown at Computex last June, Hitachi-LG Data Storage was showing its hybrid ...

Not entirely certain this is the appropriate forum, but I'm looking for a good/reasonable quality enclosure to repurpose one of the optical drives (CD/DVD RW) I saved from previous laptops. A quick ...

One truism about computer hardware is that, once purchased, it immediately starts falling behind the leading edge of the technology curve. Consider the Dual-2.0GHz Power Mac G5 I purchased in ...

The librarian of Congress has provided a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let people repair optical drives on video game consoles. The ...

Sony Electronics on Monday said it is shipping blue laser-based optical storage drives and related products to equipment manufacturers and system integrators. The new Professional Disc for Data ...