Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

Passcape ISO Burner is free portable software for Windows that lets you easily burn ISO image files to CD/DVD/USB. It also lets you create bootable disks or a bootable USB drive from the ISO images ...

Disc burning can be a delicate process: it’s safest to minimize your computer activity while burning to avoid ruining a disc. This, of course, spells out downtime while waiting for your disc to burn.

Pioneer Electronics introduced the smallest and lightest BD/DVD/CD portable burner supporting BDXL currently available. The ultra-compact clamshell type drive can read and write to all BDXL disc ...

We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features. It’s been forever since I’ve seen a laptop with an optical disc drive! If ...

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The Nero suite supplied by Samsung includes a test utility - Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.51.1 - but the more we looked at the results, the less sure we were that these reflected real-world burns and reads.