[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 ...

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 ...

Use a can of compressed air to blow out the slot in the optical drive. Wait about three minutes after you blow out the drive for any condensation created by the canned air to dry inside the laptop.

One thing that bothers me about many ultraportable notebooks and netbooks is that they tend to cut the optical drive to save weight and reduce costs. The problem is that there are still times when ...

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.

In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB ...

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 ...