Optical I’m in the same boat with optical media as I am with hard drives. They’re all relatively inexpensive, but I haven’t seen much in the way of performance reviews for DVD ripping speed, audio ...

Kioxia, AIO Core, and Kyocera have prototyped a PCIe 5.0-compatible broadband SSD with an optical interface. The trio is developing broadband optical SSD technology for advanced applications requiring ...

Can optical drives get new life? That’s the idea behind Hitachi-LG Data Storage’s concept of hybrid optical drives. First shown at Computex last June, Hitachi-LG Data Storage was showing its hybrid ...

For just $35, a professional hardware called Reid will swap out your MacBook Pro’s optical drive for a super-speedy SSD drive. Why would you want to do this? Because the SSD drive is an unbelievable ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...