As you might be aware, modern Apple and Windows laptops don’t come with DVD/CD drives. This is where devices like Apple SuperDrive come in to help you play, read and write these optical drives ...

Plus, the big stores still carry titles for those gamers still hanging on to the disc-drive versions of modern consoles. Still, ask the average PC gamer the last time they handled an optical disc ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

Plenty of people are replacing the optical drive in the original hardware with an optical drive emulator as they begin to fail, and with that comes the option for several other modifications to ...

Optical media also have a 30-year life and are less vulnerable to extreme hot or cold. However, as a transportable storage medium, they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and ...