Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

The sizes of digital media files have grown over the years, with features like 4K video and RAW photography now accessible to the masses. Recording home movies with your phone can easily pile up ...

When you are in the market for external storage solutions, two of the most common options you'll find are USB flash drives and external hard drives. Despite the difference in their names, both use the ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

Kingston just launched a hardware-encrypted USB drive that's more locked down than a military bunker. The company claims that its IronKey D500S is the world's first USB flash drive to be validated for ...

Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to steal your data. As people become more aware of common threats like phishing links, fake websites, fraudulent emails and impersonation scams, ...

Running Windows completely off of a USB flash drive is quite handy if you want to try a newer or older version of Windows without affecting your current system. The USB drive can also serve as a ...

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Good news, everyone: You don't have to safely eject your USB drives before playing Delta Force, despite what the game might have told you earlier. In a message to PC ...

While CDs were still fighting for market share against cassettes, and gaming consoles were just starting to switch over to CD from cartridge storage, optical media companies were already thinking ...

As businesses reopen their shops on the first Monday after the CrowdStrike global IT outage knocked out millions of Windows machines across the globe, some of them are bound to still be wrangling ...