If you’re the kind of power user who could use an extra internal hard drive in your laptop, then you’ll be thrilled to hear about the new OptiBay from MCE Technologies. The OptiBay allows you to ...

Apple's MacBook Pro has only one hard-drive slot, but you can replace the optical drive with a bracket to hold another hard drive, and in doing so put a small and cheaper SSD in for a boot drive, to ...

Blu-ray adoption may slowly be growing, but that's not stopping Samsung from trying to hasten the process. Today, the company introduced its first-ever internal Blu-ray Disc combo drive, with the ...

Turns any 9.5mm SATA Slot Loading Internal Optical Drive into an External Enclosure for Plug And Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray Disc Burning/Playing Other World Computing (OWC) announced the OWC ...

Other World Computing has announced the US$49 OWC SuperSlim, a USB 2.0 optical drive enclosure for turning any 9.5mm SATA slot loading internal optical drive, even those with mounting tabs, into an ...

MCE Technologies on Friday announced that it’s shipping its OptiBay for MacBooks and 15-inch MacBook Pros. The OptiBay is a second internal hard disk drive that fits in place of the laptop’s internal ...

The DRU-830A is capable of burning DVD R and -R at breakneck speeds of 18x, the fastest around. It can even write at 18x to 16x media! Dual-layer media can be burnt at 8x, which means you can burn a ...

Dell revealed the new XPS 14z laptop. This laptop is the thinnest full-featured 14-inch laptop that has an internal optical drive. At less than an inch thick and a starting weight of 4.36 pounds, the ...

Frankly, since the MacBook Air was released, we’ve been questioning the validity of the internal optical drive in our MacBooks. Really, we need that thing once or twice a month, if at all, with all of ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

I hardly ever use the optical drive in my notebook. Once in awhile I will make some MP3s from a CD. Once every few years I might wipe and reinstall the OS. File backups are more easily done to SD ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...