Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This method is still the way audio CDs are played on a computer ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

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Early CD-ROM drives needed CD caddies to work properly. They looked like a large floppy disk with a CD inside. "This Old Tech" is an ongoing series about technologies of the past that had an impact.

Today marks National CD Player Day, and an interesting fact is that the inventor of CD-ROM technology was from Rome.

Our pick for the best CD rates are Barclays (5.10%), Ally Bank (4.80%) and Quontic Bank (4.95%). We’ve put together a list of the best CD rates from our top-rated banks, credit unions and other ...

So what does that mean for CDs? Well, you can still lock in a yield. But the days of high CD rates are coming to an end. While each bank independently determines the CD yields it pays, several ...

September 2024 Even as cloud storage and wireless file transfers become more common, sometimes the best option for moving files is to put them on a USB flash drive. The cheapest drives can leave ...

In May 2022, for instance, the average six-month CD offered a yield of 0.10%. Put $10,000 into a CD paying that yield and you’ll end up with a grand total of $5 in interest earnings. Enough for ...