Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve ...

"The optical drive is one of the components going into a computer that has moving parts. Most of the systems we do we offer with a five-year warranty, so as you can imagine the chances for an optical ...

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

Two vendors that have a strong play in this niche are Sony and Plextor with their DRX-810UL and PX-740UF DVDR/RW drives, respectively. Both external optical drives contain similar technology and ...

Over in Japan, Fujitsu's FVM Note laptops offer optical drives, as despite the impracticality in this form-factor, Blu-rays ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

Cooler Master's new MasterBox CM695 mid-tower case includes an old-school 5.25-inch optical drive bay for the DVD and Blu-ray ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

One of the first things I did when i bought my MBP last year was to remove the DVD drive and put an OptiBay in its place. I put the drive into the free USB enclosure, and I haven't used it since.

I had a similar experience with a PS2...I dropped it in transport (~2 foot fall, but on a hard floor). The disc tray popped out, and the eject mechanism was completely fouled...wouldn't push it in or ...