The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray ... by USB-based flash drives and external hard drives. Following are the major categories of optical discs in order of writability.

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

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 ...

The case, which stems from allegations that Quanta Storage and six other companies artificially inflated the prices of optical disk drive sold to HP from 2003 to 2009, means Quanta Storage may ...

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 ...

To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and ...

Vendor seeks damages as it claims it paid over the odds for optical disk drives from Samsung, Sony, Hitachi and others Dell has accused a handful of hardware manufacturers of being involved in a price ...

Today's optical data-storage technologies, such as CD, DVD and Blu-ray ... extremely low compared with the one-photon processes that drive natural processes, such as photosynthesis and vision.

Optical devices use a laser to scan the surface of a spinning disc made from metal and plastic ... For example, a solid-state drive that holds 256 gigbytes (GB) might be of a similar cost to ...