The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

Austrian hi-fi specialist Pro-Ject is giving the humble compact disc a high-end revival with a new tube-powered flagship ...

search. It's been posted so many times already.<BR><BR>Put the 2 hard drives on channel 0, and the 2 optical drives on channel 1. <BR>You'll get better performance that way if you're writing something ...

Remeber that Mythbusters episode where they tested if CDs could shatter in drives? Well, I don't remember their exact conclusion, but I can now say from personal experience - myth 100% ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...