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 ...

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 ...

Few notebooks have CD or DVD drives today, thanks largely to the rise of web-based content and the cloud. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology ...

So I just hooked up my optical drive for the first time since moving to Windows 10. It's probably been about 18 months since I last used it, and I purchased it back in 2009. I ripped a new music CD I ...

Optical drives, that can read and write CDs, DVDs, and sometimes Blu-ray discs, have been an important part of the PC universe for a long time. But there’s less and less need for them. I haven’t ...

Classic disc-based consoles are getting long in the tooth. As their optical drives burn out, they’re rendered unplayable, which is a shame -- these systems were the peak of gaming in the eyes of many.

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 ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

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 ...

I’m just going to come right out and say it: I want the https://www.pcworld.com/products/storage/optical_drives.html to die. I don’t just mean on laptops, either ...

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 ...

Against the flow of time and reason, Pioneer has launched a brand new optical disc drive. Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity ...