Plenty of people are replacing the optical drive in the original hardware with an optical drive emulator as they begin to fail, and with that comes the option for several other modifications to ...

Let’s get started now. An Apple SuperDrive is an optical drive that is connected to a computer using USB ports. It is also known as Apple USB SuperDrive. At first, Apple placed this drive on the ...

But fear not, data hoarders. Two companies have stepped up to reassure the Japanese market that they'll keep producing high-quality optical media: Verbatim and I-O Data.

Like the magnetic cassette and the floppy disk before them, optical ... with hard drives, but this innovative optical disk memory condenses that space to the size of a desktop computer ...

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...