Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

For companies seeking to store mission-critical data, disk arrays configured with SCSI-attached drives have typically been the only game in town. Lower-cost drives based on the Advanced Technology ...

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. That's been the case for years, with Apple famously starting ...

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk ...

Building a massive high-quality media server doesn't require endless hard drive expansion budgets or paying escalating cloud ...