Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming ...

We’ve finished running FutureMark‘s 3DMark03 test — including all four game simulations, including the DirectX 9 features — and now we’re watching the Codecreatures DirectX 8.1 benchmark running at a ...

Plextor has announced a new CD-rewritable drive that can squeeze 40 percent more data into standard blank discs. The Plextor Premium can pack in 980MB of data into a 700MB (80-minute) disc and 1.2GB ...

A new telephone called the Vidicode Featurephone 175 that comes with a built-in CD-RW drive so you can easily record all of your phone conversations. Perfect for journalists and prank phone callers ...

With prices dropping, CNET thinks it’s the best time to buy a DVD-RW drive. They survey several of the drives out there, including HP’s new DVD200i drive [pictured at right]. Read Amazon Get the best ...

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 ...

Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.’s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port. Prefer old school? No problem; you can plug the $229 drive ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

discs at 16x speed (2400KB/Sec) and re-writable CD-RW discs at 10x speed (1500KB/Sec), while reading CD-ROM discs at 24x speed (3600KB/Sec). It does so while weighing in at less than a pound and ...

Iomega's Predator CD-RW drive will debut at the Comdex trade show next week in Las Vegas and is set for a U.S. release in January. Iomega has discarded the shoe-box dimensions of other CD-RWs and ...

San Diego – Rohm Co. Ltd. has launched a 180-milliwatt infrared laser for 32x CD-rewritable drives that are said to take the stress of high power output without its facet being destroyed. The ...