Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

For companies seeking to store mission-critical data, disk arrays configured with SCSI-attached drives have typically been the only game in town. Lower-cost drives based on the Advanced Technology ...

If you need to, it's entirely possible to read and write to floppy disks with a modern PC or laptop. Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk ...

Your junk drawer USB stick is hiding three superpowers you've never used ...

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 ...

Building a massive high-quality media server doesn't require endless hard drive expansion budgets or paying escalating cloud ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Laptops with a physical CD/DVD drive feel like relics of the past. But they do still exist. And no, they are not necessarily weird, unknown ...

What is a ghost image? In computing, ghost imaging, also called disk imaging, is a data backup process that creates an image of a computer's hard disk drive (HDD), solid-state drive (SSD) or one of ...