Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

More specifics would be very helpful for us to make suggestions.<BR>(1) What kind of optical drive? Does it need to be able to read and write DVDs? Blu-ray?<BR>(2) What's the use cases for the drive?

One truism about computer hardware is that, once purchased, it immediately starts falling behind the leading edge of the technology curve. Consider the Dual-2.0GHz Power Mac G5 I purchased in ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts with laptops equipped with unused optical drives may be interested in a new modification which allows you to install your very own mini PC directly into the slot. Created by ...

So I just hooked up my optical drive for the first time since moving to Windows 10. It's probably been about 18 months since I last used it, and I purchased it back in 2009. I ripped a new music CD I ...

Against the flow of time and reason, Pioneer has launched a brand new optical disc drive. Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity ...

Which Blu-ray burner is best? As almost any older member of the millennial generation can recall, having the ability to burn DVDs and CDs using your computer’s optical drive was one of the only ...