Desktops obviously have plenty of room for optical drives, and even the MacBook Pro, Apple's high-end laptop, won't ever get much thinner because of the constraints of other technology inside ...

That makes it possible to run the connecting cable at up to 30 meters, potentially allowing SSDs to operate at extreme ...

[Profezzorn] designed some mounting brackets to house a file server inside of an external drive ... that he’s using is meant for a 5.25″ optical drive. It comes with a USB to SATA converter ...

In fact, it’s close to cheap notebook territory. We understand why many people want an optical drive inside a full-sized notebook — it doesn’t make my MacBook too big, for instance ...

It turns out that the optical drive is software-locked to the motherboard ... The teardown also provides an inside look at the power supply (above), which Sony didn’t show us before.

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.

Nowadays, many people tend to regard optical drive as obsolete in PCs. Modern desktops and laptops generally come without one. But there are still convincing reasons why it makes sense to have an ...

“Inside the data centers, the optical connectivity can be ... and energy consumption are already obvious fueling immense interest in the linear, direct-drive optical engine,” said Patel. “The benefits ...