Sparks Police responded Tuesday to a crash involving a vehicle and a motorcycle near the intersection of Disc Drive and Galleria Parkway. According to the preliminary investigation, a vehicle turning ...

About two decades ago, proof-of-principle demonstrations used light to enable heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). Now, with over a million HAMR drives in the market, Nature Photonics spoke to ...

This move could be concerning among gamers who prefer physical discs, as they can be rented, are often available for cheap, and can be shared among friends. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

There's a common myth about hard disk drives (HDDs) that they're vacuum-sealed in order to protect the magnetic disk from outside contaminants. While protecting the disk is important, only certain ...

If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. That's been the case for years, with Apple famously starting ...

An external disc connected to a laptop. - Nor Gal/Shutterstock If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs.

Installing a disc drive on the PlayStation 5 is fairly straightforward and requires no tools. All you need is a sturdy place to set the console on its side and decent lighting to see what you’re doing ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

It's difficult to believe how far technology has come since the mid-1950s. At a time when "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" were hit shows with nightly audiences, IBM was busy developing one of the ...

Sony is sticking with an optical disc drive for at least one more console generation and it's decision is "firm," according to a new report. Just as Sony did with its PlayStation 5 lineup, the ...