When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

You can purchase a second DVD drive for your personal computer or the computers in a small business office for less than $20 as of May 2012. The process is easy ...

Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

IF YOU bought a computer with a DVD drive more than 10 years ago – you could now be owed money as part of a class-action lawsuit in the United States. Here's how much you could be due, and how to ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

Crap, so as I am picking up my old fulltower case to move it to a different part of the room, I drop it from about two feet up. One end slipped straight out of my fingers and the entire case dropped ...

Whether you use your laptop's optical drive or not, it's important to keep it clean so it's there for you when you need it. Here's an easy way to clean slot-loading CD and DVD drives (like the kind on ...