You can mount ISO files or explore their contents as if you had the physical disc in your drive. This is increasingly important in a world where disc drives are less common than e ...

there have been occasional reports of discs exploding inside CD/DVD drives. In the majority of those cases, the disc was already damaged, and spinning it at high speed was all it needed to shatter.

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

In addition to Blu-ray, which is the optical disc that can store the most data, the production of recordable CDs and DVDs – currently a niche market – will also be gradually wound down ...