Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Since it makes no apparent sense for optical disc drives, eg CD-ROM drives or DVD-ROM drives, to work at ATA-33 or even ATA-66 speeds there would superficially be no good reason other than marketing ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to combine their respective optical disc drive businesses into a joint venture company, Toshiba said Monday. A ...

Toshiba Corporation and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today revealed the details of their new joint venture for optical-disk drives (ODD), as initially announced in a memorandum of terms announced on ...

Acer Communications & Multimedia (ACM) recently disclosed that it has received significantly more orders and expects to greatly boost sales of optical disc drives in the fourth quarter. The company ...

Affected by the world’s market downturn and a delay in launching 24x CD-RW (CD-rewritable) drives, Behavior Tech Computer (BTC) now expects to ship eight million CD-ROM drives and one million DVD-ROM ...

Backing up data is standard throughout business -- but the backup methods used in the past may no longer meet your data storage and collaboration needs. For instance, just as faster, higher-capacity ...