Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

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 ...