Sony (NYSE:SONY) announced it will cease production of recordable Blu-ray Disc media in February 2025. ・This decision also ...

and Blu-ray disc (BD) formats emerged, offering even more storage space and quality for video and data. One of the main advantages of optical drives is that they are relatively cheap and widely ...

An optical drive is a computer component that reads optical media such as CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. Optical drives are specific to the types of disc formats they can read. For example, the earlier ...

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical ...

The focus is on drives that are based on Mediatek chipsets. Most of the knowledge is based on analysis of Samsung SDG-605B (Firmware: x010). The list of drives per chipset is incomplete. There are ...

they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and external hard drives. Following are the major categories of optical discs in order of writability.

The optical disc drive for the PlayStation 5 is back in stock at select U.S. retailers, but it likely won't stay available ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media ...

Fujitsu Limited has transferred its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba Corporation on October 1st, 2009. Please click here for Toshiba Web Site to see past Fujitsu hard disk drive OEM products.

Unlike multi-session discs, existing data can be overwritten. To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats ...

The optic disc margins were not clearly visible on examination. The remainder of the peripheral retina and retinal vasculature was normal. No intraretinal or subretinal fluid was noted at the macula.