A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

In terms of pure mindshare, 1994 might have been the year of Peak CD, with 17.5 million CD-ROM drives and $590 million in ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player.

Sega’s most powerful and innovative console was also its last. So what went wrong?

Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly ... “We no longer support CD-ROM and Digital Download Programs, although they may still work on compatible computers ...

Beige box on its side. Massive matching monitor. CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive underneath. This itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, off-white, boxy PC is a dead ringer for the first leftover computer ...

Sony has confirmed that PS5 Pro won't ship with a disc drive. Instead, you can purchase one separately like the existing PS5 ...

Optical drive. It's pretty hard to find a computer without a CD-ROM drive these days. In fact, it's hard to find one without a rewritable CD. But time marches on, and today it's preferable to have ...

PS5 Pro won’t ship with an Ultra HD disc drive, but don’t panic, as a detachable one can be added whenever you like. Those of ...

Mike Smith was 10 years old when he learned that he could successfully take apart a computer and put it back together. His ...