Nintendo has patented a home console concept that does not include an optical disc drive. It may or may not be for the company's mysterious upcoming game console, codenamed NX. Look, ladies and ...

Sony Optiarc is a major manufacturer of optical disc drives for Blu-ray Disc and DVD. Its drives are used in products made by Sony and other electronics and PC makers. It has two subsidiaries: a U ...

Hey all. The optical drive on my unibody mbp has recently decided to refuse to suck in discs. I'm not really familiar with how the inner mechanism works, but it doesn't even try to pull the disc ...

The new detachable disc drive PS5 variant has been rumored to release in September, 2023 and apparently has been in production since 2020.

Researchers in China have unveiled a new optical storage technology that promises to redefine data storage capabilities. Using 3D storage techniques, scientists at the University of Shanghai for ...

Internal optical drives may be on the way out, but they're also more affordable than ever. Take the iHAS124-04 ($17.99 list) from Lite-On, an affordable, 24x disc drive that accepts all DVD and CD ...

A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at ...

This creates a virtual disk that is bigger and faster than any individual optical disk. The Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) drive supports capacities up to 5.5 TB and a write speed of 187.5 MB/s ...

The new company will pool NEC's strengths in IC development and Sony's expertise in optical pickups; NEC and Sony will transfer their respective optical disc drive operations to the new company, which ...

The European Commission on Tuesday warned 13 optical disk drive suppliers that they may face a formal antitrust investigation for participating in a worldwide cartel.

Choi says it is possible to have 32GB, 64GB, or even 128GB of flash on-board the optical drive, and in that case, you’d be able to conceivably use the ODD’s flash as your primary C: drive.