Every three years or so I build myself a new PC, but the last time I did, an internal DVD drive was not part of the spec. I simply don't use discs enough to warrant one. Instead, I got an external USB ...

This plug-and-play DVD drive works with both CDs and DVDs without any special drivers. Get it discounted on Amazon while you still can! Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

Wondering whether to buy an Apple SuperDrive to go with your Mac? Discover what you can do with an Apple CD and DVD burner - and whether you really need one The last Apple Mac to ship with an optical ...

Some docks and adapters allow the SuperDrive to work, but it might be cheaper to just buy an up-to-date CD/DVD drive. Apple ditched the optical drive from most Macs about a decade ago—far before many ...

For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data or unconvinced that ...

At KitGuru we review a plethora of different products but it's not often that we look at things like optical drives which are reasonably homogeneous in design and don't differ greatly in terms of ...