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 ...

Sony is reportedly planning a new PS5 model which will support a detachable external disc drive. That's according to a new report from known leaker Tom Henderson, who claims that the new "D" model of ...

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 ...

Sony is reportedly gearing up for another major Playstation 5 design overhaul, and this time, it supposedly wants to sell a detachable disc drive, too. The news comes courtesy of Insider Gaming, a new ...

The new all-digital configuration of the Xbox Series X ditches the disc drive and (slightly) drops the price to under $450. Sean Booker Senior Video Producer As Senior Video Producer at CNET, Sean has ...

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 ...

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 ...