Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into portable multimedia studios. The new Toshiba SD-R6012 drive, launched Monday, supports DVD-R and DVD-RW formats as well as the CD-RW ...

Want to burn a CD on your modern Mac with macOS Monterey or Big Sur with the Music app? You can do that! Yes indeed, you can rip a CD on your good old modern Macintosh computer, so crawl out of your ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Using a focused laser beam, scientists can manipulate the properties of nanomaterials, thereby 'writing' information onto monolayer materials. The result is a demonstration of the ...

Abstract: We proposed a system on a chip (SOC) for CD-RW (ReWritable) drives. This SOC consists of 32 bit RISC CPU, 4 Mb flash ROM, C1/C2 ENDEC, data recovery, digital servo, C3 ENDEC, ATAPI and write ...

If you look at the pictures on Gateway’s Web site, the E-2000 and E-4000 “managed PCs” — that is; business desktops or network clients — appear in either conventional minitower or stylish microtower ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

Due to the continuous launch of faster-speed optical storage devices, lower-speed CD-RW drives are faced with inventory pressure and their retail prices have gone down below US$38, DigiTimes has ...

Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.’s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port. Prefer old school? No problem; you can plug the $229 drive ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

Apple Computer beefed up its line of PowerBook notebooks on Monday, doubling the memory and adding combination drives that can burn CDs and play DVD movies. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company also ...