Optical disc drive

This seems dumb to be attempting on this old junk, but I have a Getac toughbook I like messing with from time to time, and i thought it would be cool to upgrade the disc drive. Turns out the weird adapter that seemingly every laptop needs to use is meant to accept PATA and the new drive is SATA...

Hey all, My HP Z240 has a stock CD/DVD drive. For some reason, no software installed on the PC (latest Windows 11) is able to read the contents of the CD/DVD drive unless I run it as administrator. I've never come across this before, and no amount of poking around in device manager, regedit or...

Hi, I'm looking for an external Blue-ray writer/reader, and I want it to back-up my photo, video, and music on it. I know that this method is not permanent but I still want to have it, my problem is I don't know what drive/disc speed is good for this kind of flies? or in other words What speed...

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...

Hi, I’m looking for advice on replacing the failed LG GTA0N optical disk drive in my Dell T7910 workstation. What would be a reliable drive to replace my existing, but failed LG GTA0N optical disk drive? This drive seems to have been discontinued. Besides, it failed after very little use. My...

I recently got a new SSD and put it into my PC. Once i installed windows 10 into my SSD, my optical drive stopped opening/closing, and doesn't read any disks when placed into it. I thought the optical drive may have broken down as it is fairly old, so i bought a new Asus one and installed it...

For the ASUS Z270 Motherboards, do they need a BIOS update to work with the 6700K or not? Thanks.