While CD-RW drive sales are soaring and DVD-ROM drives continue to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, drive manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive to ...

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters ...

Page 2: Up Close and Personal and The Active Panel Page 3: Test Machine and CD-R Benchmarks Page 4: More CD-R Benchmarks Page 5: DVD Benchmarks Page 6: CD-R/RW Burn Times and Conclusion A few years ...

"The optical drive is one of the components going into a computer that has moving parts. Most of the systems we do we offer with a five-year warranty, so as you can imagine the chances for an optical ...

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.

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology) are soon to cease manufacturing of both CD-ROM and CD-RW drives. Not too big of a surprise since the last time I went ...

This is probably a really dumb question, but I thought I'd try it anyways. Basically, I'm building a system, and I don't want to have 2 optical drives if I can help it, and I was wondering if there ...

I'm sick and tired of loudy, whiny optical drives! I need something quieter than the Sony 16x (rebadge Lite-On, I believe) that I have in my system now. On short bursts, it whines terribly.<BR><BR>I ...

Apple has issued a patent application for an adapter to convert mini CD/DVD-ROMs to standard 12 cm size for use in slot-loading drives found on many of Apple's computer models. Apple points out that ...