Tom's Hardware on MSN

New CD players keep launching, but a drive shortage could make them unfixable

The lack of optical drive manufacturers is raising questions about the repairability and longevity of new CD players that are ...

Why Did Optical Disc Drives Lose the Market at the Peak of Their Technology? The Secret Development History and Rise and Fall of ODDs, Where Japanese Manufactur…

FM TOWNS, Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, Plextor, Sanyo Electric. And MediaTek. Deciphering the rise and fall of the PC industry ...
Hackaday

Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...
Ars Technica

Do you still use optical drives?

So I just hooked up my optical drive for the first time since moving to Windows 10. It's probably been about 18 months since I last used it, and I purchased it back in 2009. I ripped a new music CD I ...
Ars Technica

Optical drives that will work in a vertical position?

The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel in under ten minutes

Valve practically just flipped a switch to give gamers the ability to read optical drives directly from the Steam Frame.
TechPowerUp

Valve Enables CD Drive Support in Steam Frame Kernel After a Single Request

Valve has switched on optical drive support in the Steam Frame's Linux kernel, a day after one owner asked for it on the ...