disc drives

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  1. P

    [SOLVED] DVD Drive Read Speeds

    I have a 10 year old blu ray drive (Samsung SH-B123L) that reads discs typically at a 10x speed in one spot on my computer. On the second spot, I replaced a DVD-RW drive (that read on average at around a 5x speed) with a new Blu Ray RW drive (LG WH14NS40) that, in theory, should be able to read...
  2. consptheory77

    Question Blu ray drives in old laptops?

    Someone tossed away three laptops because they couldn't get them working, tossed them my way to fix them and keep them if I could, which I did, but I'm wondering whether it is worth it to upgrade them with a (small, cheap) SSD and put in an internal blu ray drive to make them essentially...