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.

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player.

Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly ... “We no longer support CD-ROM and Digital Download Programs, although they may still work on compatible computers ...

But while most eBay sellers recognized the historic value of a pioneering CD-ROM drive, the accompanying PC was typically a dime-a-dozen model and was thrown out with the rare interface card still ...

Sega’s most powerful and innovative console was also its last. So what went wrong?

Beige box on its side. Massive matching monitor. CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive underneath. This itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, off-white, boxy PC is a dead ringer for the first leftover computer ...

Optical drive. It's pretty hard to find a computer without a CD-ROM drive these days. In fact, it's hard to find one without a rewritable CD. But time marches on, and today it's preferable to have ...

WHQL Radeon driver release from AMD is for PC gamers playing Space Marine 2, Black Myth: Wukong, and Counter-Strike 2.

Sony has confirmed that PS5 Pro won't ship with a disc drive. Instead, you can purchase one separately like the existing PS5 ...

PS5 Pro won’t ship with an Ultra HD disc drive, but don’t panic, as a detachable one can be added whenever you like. Those of ...

AMD has updated its 'frame generation for all games' tech, with Fluid Motion Frames 2 getting general stability fixes and ...