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 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.

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 ...

So I've got this CD-R Drive, it broke. <P>I just pulled it back out hoping a firmware upgrade would fix it, but that didn't work.<P>It is detected correctly by the BIOS and in Windows (XP), it'll ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...

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 ...

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 ...