Blu-ray and DVD drives are being kicked out of PCs but finding a new life in data centers as storage that can retain data for up to 100 years. A massive new system from Sony called Everspan is a ...

Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it would launch the world's first notebook personal computer equipped with a next-generation Blu-ray optical disk drive in Japan in June.

As for other storage media, if you want to install disc-based programs or watch Blu-rays and DVDs on your PC, grab an optical drive. They’re inexpensive, and prices for blank discs have dropped too.

Transcoding is noticeably faster on my 6-core Ryzen 4700U laptop 16GB RAM and all solid-state storage, but it lacks a drive so I have to transfer rips from my main desktop over the network.

Only place I can see using a Blu-Ray drive is for media content like movies, but you're likely going to want something like a dedicated media player or a game console for that instead.

Blu-ray Disc technology offers significant advancements for customers requiring high-definition content and storage for archiving large amounts of data and digital content. For instance, a Blu-ray ...

Also inside is a Blu-ray optical drive and an accompanying HDMI port, which makes sense. The Core 2 Duo tops everything off.

The systems start at $559.99 for internal drives and $649.99 for external drives. Blu-ray is a new high-capacity optical disc format that can store up to 50GB per disc, compared to 8.5GB for a ...

A new Blu-ray optical drive has been announced from Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions, the excitingly-named DX-401S. Launching in April, the read-only disc drive can read all DVD+/-R (W), CD-R (W) ...

PCs on the market boasting Blu-ray Disc support could appear in the first half of 2006, he said. The drive will have an ATAPI interface that delivers a data transfer rate of 33MB/sec., Muneto said.