An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

Once considered essential, the technology is no longer featured in the average laptop ... The Python Online Disk Server, or PYODS, is a tool that allows one to serve optical drives or ISO images ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray ... been superseded by USB-based flash drives and external hard drives. Following are the major categories of optical discs in order of writability.

An Apple SuperDrive is an optical drive that is connected to a computer using USB ports ... after the launch of the MacBook Air which had no CD or DVD slots. With its popularity, Windows users ...

Vendor seeks damages as it claims it paid over the odds for optical disk drives from Samsung, Sony, Hitachi and others Dell has accused a handful of hardware manufacturers of being involved in a price ...

The case, which stems from allegations that Quanta Storage and six other companies artificially inflated the prices of optical disk drive sold to HP from 2003 to 2009, means Quanta Storage may ...