Quanta Storage will file an appeal against a US court ruling in favor of HP, which accuses the Taiwan-based company and six other disk-drive makers of participating in a price-fixing... As PC ...

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 ...

If all you plan to do with your netbook is surf the web, check your email, and maybe enjoy some downloaded music and movies, you might not even notice the missing disc drive. But if you want to ...

TOKYO — Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. signed Thursday (Nov. 17) a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that they would establish a joint venture company in the optical disk drive business, aiming to be the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical disc drive on a modern laptop computer. Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information ...

About three years ago, I wrote a column about the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that involved optical disk drives. Think "DVD players," and "CD players," as well as various gaming platforms ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent that’s been recently made public might have potentially confirmed rumors that a new version of the Playstation 5 would launch with a detachable disc drive ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld the approval of multimillion-dollar settlement agreements in a consumer electronics class action relating to price-fixing conspiracy claims by indirect ...

A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Litigation over optical disk drives netted $205M in settlements Lawyers' fee was focus of objections in court (Reuters) - A California federal judge on Monday awarded, opens new tab $26.6 million in ...