Optical media also have a 30-year life and are less vulnerable to extreme hot or cold. However, as a transportable storage medium, they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and ...

Traditional hard drives, tape, and other emerging optical solutions are competing for this expanding market, where longevity and energy efficiency are prime factors. Optera Data claims that ...

The case, which stems from allegations that Quanta Storage and six other companies artificially inflated the prices of optical disk drive sold to HP from 2003 to 2009, means Quanta Storage may ...

Another encouraging sign for optical disc devotees is that Verbatim has recently ... Pangs of nostalgia were felt when we read that the drive comes bundled with 'Nero' software and is compatible ...

Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

Click on the instructions tab to get a bit more of the story. The enclosure that he’s using is meant for a 5.25″ optical drive. It comes with a USB to SATA converter which is how he connects ...

The Recordable Optical Disc Market is experiencing steady growth as demand for reliable, long-term data storage solutions ...

Vendor seeks damages as it claims it paid over the odds for optical disk drives from Samsung, Sony, Hitachi and others Dell has accused a handful of hardware manufacturers of being involved in a price ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges ...