When Did Laptops Get Rid Of CD/DVD Drives?

Remember when laptops had disc drives? Here's when - and why - manufacturers decided to leave CDs and DVDs behind for good.

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Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...
EDN

Hard disk drive read channels ” a must for perpendicular recording

The electronic heart of a hard disk drive is the read-channel integrated circuit (IC). Over the years, read-channel designers have delivered dramatic improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...
Popular Mechanics

The Best Hard-Disk Drives for Your PC

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...
PC World

3 reasons you should still buy a hard drive

Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...
Yahoo

PS5 Slim's detachable disc drive comes with a pleasant surprise

The PlayStation 5 Slim is now available in the US and with it comes the first detachable 4K Blu-ray disc drive. That won't mean much to those buying a new PS5 for the first time and have no plans to ...
Game Rant

PlayStation 5 Disc Drives Are Selling Out

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...
CNET

Storage duo aims to speed up disk drives

Storage gear maker LSI Logic and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will join forces to work on development of serial-attached SCSI, which could speed up the delivery of devices using the ...
CNET

Disk drives to stop shrinking

Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...
PC Magazine

PS5 Slim Needs an Internet Connection to Install the Disc Drive

Retail boxes for the PS5 Slim have revealed an internet connection is required to pair the detachable disc drive to the console before it can be used. As Eurogamer reports, Sony decided to add a ...
Comicbook.com

New PS5 Slim Disc Drive Comes With a Major Catch

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Sony’s new slim model of the PlayStation 5 is going to come with a pretty major catch for those ...