I am using a CD Rom (as master) and a CD-R (as slave) in my system and I keep burning out the CD drives. After about a year, they stop reading CD's. I've used several different brands and they all do ...

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

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I remember spending hundreds of dollars for a slow-ass 2x CD-R drive years ago. Coasters were made more often that useable discs. It took half an hour to burn a disc, but on-the-fly MP3 to CDDA wasn't ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

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.

For about as long as there have been CD-ROMs, there have been CD-ROM recorders you could buy and attach to your computer, if you were independently wealthy and had nothing better to do than invest in ...

Storage peripheral maker LaCie has announced the availability of a new external DVD-RAM/R drive equipped with FireWire connectivity. LaCie said the drive features the company’s new two-chip single ...