The ASUS ZenDrive U9M offers fast CD read and write speeds ... External optical drives aren't built into your computer or laptop. Instead, they connect externally via a cable (commonly a USB ...

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.

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 ...

As you might be aware, modern Apple and Windows laptops don’t come with DVD/CD drives. This is where devices like Apple SuperDrive come in to help you play, read and write these optical drives ...

"The optical drive is one of the components going into a computer that has moving parts ... a leader in this space largely because our DVD/CD drives are consistently rated among the highest ...

The CD was the first kind of optical disc ... Here are some ways to work around not having an optical drive in your computer: ...

An audio CD or CD-ROM that is cut into a non-round shape after it is pressed by the manufacturer or recorded on a CD-R. To avoid vibration in the drive, the shape is balanced as much as possible.

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ...

but [Chris] also has another way of doing just that which is undefeatable by a TEMPEST shielded computer. He can send one bit at a time by opening and closing a CD-ROM drive, capturing these bits ...