Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: “I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have a ...

Need to store large amounts of data quickly? Sony has the backup system you may be looking for with the introduction of its second-generation Optical Disc Archive system. Not only does the system’s ...

Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics. The PC ...

The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...

You can't keep a good disk down, it seems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Good news for those of you that have kept that big ol' ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

Like cassette tapes and floppy disks, there are many who believe optical discs are on their way out. As flash memory is now abundant and continuously increasing in size while decreasing in price, they ...

I don't like it. Not one iota. But frankly, it doesn't much matter -- Apple's officially done with the optical drive, and there's no evidence more strikingly clear than the mid 2011 refresh of its Mac ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...