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 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 ...

It's the early 2000s, and you're tired of listening to random songs on the radio while driving. The iPod was just invented, MP3 players are still in their infancy, and cars don't support auxiliary ...

TL;DR: Fujitsu is reintroducing optical drives in new notebooks amidst Japan's growing demand for Windows 11 PCs that support playing physical media, as people abandon their old Windows 10 hardware ...

The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser diode to ramp up its output.

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...