optical drive

Hello, can someone tell me whether it's possible to burn an old "2x-4x compatible" CD-RW disc on a modern optical drive, such as ASUS ZenDrive U9M? Is the minimum possible burn speed mandated by the drive's firmware, so the discs below that minimum fail to burn? Thanks in advance.

So I tried to push my power cord into the wall outlet and saw electrical sparks. Then the cord came out and I put it back in but sparks came out again so I quickly took it out, but the power switch wasn't turned off. After switching to another wall outlet, this time with my switch off, I turned...

Yesterday i was sorting my awful cable management on my pc when i saw, a stuck sata cable, after some time and some careful work with my hands, i managed to take it out, but when i plugged my optical drive in into that slot, it didnt show up anymore. Fering i did to much strength and possibly...

I had recently built a pc, which works fine but, had decided to buy an optical drive to be able to play and write on cds and dvds (more specifically an Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Drive DRW-24B1ST). However, after installing the optical drive and booting up the PC it just won't turn...

I have 3 spare places for optical drives in my chassis, but there is not enough space for more HDD/SSDs. Is there any bracket or something to install my new SSD in the optical drive's place? Can I use a laptop caddy to do that in my chassis?

I have a problem with two specific CDs. When I put them in, my optical drive spins up, starts reading them, and I can access them but after a few seconds, it stops spinning entirely (and the LED starts flashing intensely), which obviously stops it from reading anything. That also makes explorer...

I have a dell Vostro 3578 with an optical drive and 1 TB of HDD storage. I am planing to buy an adapter (CD drive to SATA caddy) for the HDD and add a new SATA SSD to the default HDD location. Will the performance be affected? Are there any thing else I have to look for (like power issues...

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 just bought a new external usb CD/DVD drive to burn ISO files onto blank DVD's, Windows recognizes it, it plays CD's and DVD's just fine, but once i insert a blank DVD windows just asks to insert a disc and doesn't recognize the empty DVD. I tried reinstalling the drivers of it, tried using...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0033Z2BAQ/?tag=pcpapi-20 it says dvd rw, i want to be able to write/burn music onto an audio disc. (yes i am old school and like to do this for my car)

im planning to buy a SSD but my power supply only has 2 sata power connectors one for the mech hard drive and one for the optical drive yes i know i should ditch the optical drive and put it to the new SSD but i also use the optical drive i dont want to buy a external optical drive cus i...

I'm having a slightly strange issue with an ASUS DRW-24B1ST optical drive in a new desktop build with Windows 10. Whenever I put a disk in and opened it in file explorer it would eject it with the message "Please insert a disc into drive...". I tried various things: Uninstalling in device...

I have been having issues that when I install some of my old games from my DVD Drive, it is very slow. Is there any way to fix this?