I bought all the parts for a new build, including a Fractal Design Define Nano S (windowless), but looking at all the components on the table I'm having second thoughts about losing the optical ...

However, it is a slot-loading drive, I don't have a faceplate obviously, and I can't find any external enclosures designed for slot-loading. NewEgg has 3 enclosures that I found, but all are open ...

Most of the Win 8 PCs we've tested are ultrabooks or hybrids that lack DVD drives, but there are still a handful of new notebooks that play DVDs, for fans of physical media.

This enclosure holds the drive that fits into the MacBook Pro’s optical drive slot. Other places where you can buy an enclosure include BrainyTrade , iFixit , MaxUpgrades , NewMode , and OWC .

So, nearly seven years between posts, two optical drive-related iMac issues are resolved. The next one I buy apparently won't have an optical drive, so don't expect to check in around 2020 for a ...

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 ...

Some optical drives dispense with the tray entirely; you simply feed the disc into a narrow slot, like in a car's CD player. The optical drives on older Mac laptops featured a simple slot instead ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in digital media and its convergence technologies, announced today a new slot-in, slim portable DVD writer, the SE-B18AB optical disc drive (ODD ...

The recommended enduser prices for these slim optical drives are: TOB02 - Slim Blu-ray & DVD/CD combo = 143,50 EUR (without VAT) SOD01 - Slim Slot-in DVD/CD combo = 63,90 (without VAT) ...