With the PS5 Pro release date just a couple of days away, the PS5 disc drive is sold out everywhere. At the time of writing, every major retailer in America and Europe is out of stock for Sony’s ...

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 ...

Registration system may be tied to DMCA protection for drive firmware. Not for nothing, and I do understand the general animus towards online checkin requirements ...

In the presence of USB-based external hand disc drives and the adoption of solid state drives, protecting the circuit from overcurrent, overvoltage, and ESD pose the great challenge. The USB ...

If you've developed a habit of burning business presentations and other work-related documents to CD, you can clear up a great deal of office space with the help of an external hard drive. By ...

Designed specifically for professional storage applications, such as document and medical imaging, e-mail archiving, multimedia projects, graphic design, and audio/video editing/authoring, the ProDATA ...

Anyway, too much backstory, the question is: what are the forum picks for external 4K optical disk drives? Ideally, it's powered via USB3.0 so I don't have another adapter to break out, but that's not ...