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 ...

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 ...

Optical disc devotees continue to find safe ports and harbors in Japan, with the release of the new FMV Note A laptop line (machine translation). This laptop range fuses modern features like a Windows ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...

Against the flow of time and reason, Pioneer has launched a brand new optical disc drive. Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity ...

Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 ...

Forward-looking: Despite consumer PCs and game consoles transitioning to faster SSDs, traditional disk drives (HDDs) continue to offer ever more space for cold storage at lower prices. One company ...

TOKYO — Running toward a planned commercial launch in August, Fujitsu Ltd. began sample shipments Thursday of a new disk drive that will support the 2.3GB version of its rewritable magneto-optical ...

Optical storage did evolve-from the early monsters like the 55-pound bruiser mentioned in this story-to magneto optical drives, compact disc drives, writable CDs, rewritable CDs and now DVDs. And some ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of General Electric Co., said today it has made a breakthrough in holographic optical disc storage, claiming that its researchers have developed ...