Optical media also have a 30-year life and are less vulnerable to extreme hot or cold. However, as a transportable storage medium, they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and ...

The Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac previously featured a slot for inserting a CD to listen to or import into iTunes. The ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges ...

Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

Another encouraging sign for optical disc devotees is that Verbatim has recently ... Pangs of nostalgia were felt when we read that the drive comes bundled with 'Nero' software and is compatible ...