Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

I am using a CD Rom (as master) and a CD-R (as slave) in my system and I keep burning out the CD drives. After about a year, they stop reading CD's. I've used several different brands and they all do ...

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

I remember spending hundreds of dollars for a slow-ass 2x CD-R drive years ago. Coasters were made more often that useable discs. It took half an hour to burn a disc, but on-the-fly MP3 to CDDA wasn't ...

Mac upgrade maker MCE Technologies LLC on Tuesday announced a slot-loading internal drive upgrade aimed at PowerBook G4 and Power Mac G4 Cubes. The new drive records to DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM and ...

Storage peripheral maker LaCie has announced the availability of a new external DVD-RAM/R drive equipped with FireWire connectivity. LaCie said the drive features the company’s new two-chip single ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

NEW YORK — Sony will take the floppy diskette-based Mavica digital camera to the next technological level this summer when it ships a camera that uses a CD-R drive to store images. The Mavica ...