Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into portable multimedia studios. The new Toshiba SD-R6012 drive, launched Monday, supports DVD-R and DVD-RW formats as well as the CD-RW ...

Want to burn a CD on your modern Mac with macOS Monterey or Big Sur with the Music app? You can do that! Yes indeed, you can rip a CD on your good old modern Macintosh computer, so crawl out of your ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

It’s such a brilliantly elegant idea for saving space in a desktop computer that we’re surprised don’t see these more often: an optical drive with a built-in Flash memory card reader. I/O Magic’s new ...

Gateway is going modern with its desktops and notebooks. The Poway, Calif.-based PC maker will no longer offer CD-ROM drives or CRT monitors in standard configurations of computers. Instead, desktops ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

I've noticed some faster CD-RW drives are not writing at the same data rate all the way through, for example, the recording process starts at 16x, goes to 20x at 6 minutes and so on until it reaches ...

Apple puts CD-RW drives and combo drives on most of its newer Mac models except for the low-end iBook, but that still leaves hundreds of thousands of older Mac models out there without the ability to ...

I read something in PC World that said that I should not use my CD-RW drive all the time as a replacment for a normal CD-ROM drive. Is this true? Or can I replace my CD-ROM drive with a CD-RW drive ...