It's 2025 and after almost 20 years, Sony has announced that it is ending Blu-ray media production as well as MiniDiscs, ...

The optical disc drive for the PlayStation 5 is back in stock at select U.S. retailers, but it likely won't stay available ...

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 However, as a transportable storage medium, they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

An Apple SuperDrive comes in handy if you are looking for an external optical disc that can be used on a Windows PC. In this post, we will look at how to use Apple SuperDrive on Windows 11 and ...

Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

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 ...

Vendor seeks damages as it claims it paid over the odds for optical disk drives from Samsung, Sony, Hitachi and others Dell has accused a handful of hardware manufacturers of being involved in a price ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges ...