Laptop drives are typically 2.5 inches in size and can range from 160 GB to more than 2 TB in capacity. Most systems will have between 500 GB and 1 TB of storage, which is more than enough for the ...

I don’t think I’m alone, here. Even among casual users, the optical drive goes almost entirely unused. A friend of mine used it to install some of their existing software on a new laptop ...

There’s one last upgrade trick we want to leave with you with: How to replace your optical drive with an SSD or hard drive. Besides needing an SSD, you’ll also need a caddy. We bought this ...

If you had a laptop, there was an optical drive in it. You may like ... The biggest one is the advent of cheap, reliable, fast, and high-capacity USB drives, cloud storage, ...

If you want a reasonably priced desktop-replacement big-screen laptop with an optical drive, the Vaio E17 is worth a look. But it's not a good Windows 8 showcase machine, and it lacks a touch ...

Take the Acer Travelmate 8481T-6440 as an example; it's a 14-inch laptop, sans optical drive that tacks on a bigger 84Wh battery, boosting its overall time away from an outlet to 11 hours.

The MacBook Air and the ultrabook come without a piece of hardware that's been a mainstay in laptops for a long time--the optical drive. Maybe because they really aren't that necessary anymore.

- I have an old Latitude C600 with a dead CDRW/DVD combo, and my friend has a working CD drive that came from a newer Dell laptop (D505 I believe? It's silver, if that helps).The 2 drive cases are ...

Take the Acer Travelmate 8481T-6440 as an example; it's a 14-inch laptop, sans optical drive that tacks on a bigger 84Wh battery, boosting its overall time away from an outlet to 11 hours.