(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and ...

We had a good run, but it didn’t take too long for these to be replaced by flash drives and external HDDs. Like the magnetic cassette and the floppy disk before them, optical discs became ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray ... by USB-based flash drives and external hard drives. Following are the major categories of optical discs in order of writability.

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The case, which stems from allegations that Quanta Storage and six other companies artificially inflated the prices of optical disk drive sold to HP from 2003 to 2009, means Quanta Storage may ...