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 ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

The dramatic announcement from Microsoft and Wang last year -- that anyone who purchased a copy of Windows 95 would receive a free image viewer -- led many to believe inexpensive imaging would soon be ...

The DRU-830A is capable of burning DVD R and -R at breakneck speeds of 18x, the fastest around. It can even write at 18x to 16x media! Dual-layer media can be burnt at 8x, which means you can burn a ...

Taipei, Taiwan, January 5, 2004 – ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), a leading provider of high-performance optical drives, today introduced the ASUS QuieTrack Optical Drive Series. Incorporating three ...

Quanta Storage, a Taiwan-based company specializing in the production of slim-type optical disc drives, is projecting a total output of close to three million units for 2001. The company is currently ...

Hey, <BR>This question came up a while back and I did some research and at the time it appeared that all optical (dvd, cd-rom etc) drives were ATAPI, which is EIDE, which is ata 33. Someone was ...

The Latest Slim Blu-ray and Slim DVD-ROM Drives Complete a Versatile Lineup of External Slim Optical Drives for Every User Need ASUS continues to lead in high performance optical storage devices with ...

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) ...