While many people have tried to cut down on owning physical media, there are many who prefer physical media over streaming ...

Optical drives are made to play discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. MileA/Getty Images Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every ...

With every passing day, laptops are getting slimmer and slimmer, but that ultra-slim form factor comes at a cost. To achieve that, laptop manufacturers have to shed some hardware features like ...

In a time when CDs and DVDs are becoming obsolete, the external optical drives are the perfect solution for those with a large collection of CDs and DVD but a new laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive.

If you have a computer with a USB 3.0 port and need a Blu-ray drive without having to crack open the case to install one Buffalo has a new product for you. The new product is the Buffalo USB 3.0 ...

At first blush, the idea of the Isostick might not seem that amazing. In simplest terms, it’s a USB flash drive that your computer detects as an optical drive. But who needs something like that?

Not entirely certain this is the appropriate forum, but I'm looking for a good/reasonable quality enclosure to repurpose one of the optical drives (CD/DVD RW) I saved from previous laptops. A quick ...

A decade ago I got my first Mac without an optical drive. So I got an external USB "superdrive" (CD/DVD writer). But that one now no longer works. I don't really need an optical drive, as I've copied ...

Samsung announced a new optical disk drive that it's marketing for ultrabooks and tablets. While we aren't sure how many tablet users will actually carry a separate optical disk drive, Samsung's ...

In the era of digital streaming, the market is full of wireless speakers that will play content from your smartphone or pull it down from the Internet directly over WiFi. But if you’re feeling a bit ...

Do you still need a disc drive for your laptop in 2026? New ones are increasingly difficult to find, but these popular older ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...