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.

I have a Western Digital hard drive and a Toshiba DVD-ROM drive that I'm using with my MSI K7T Turbo-R motherboard. Unfortunately, both of these devices refuse to run in DMA (I've already tried ...

Okay with all these lovely aluminium cases that are so popular today the days of the beige computer are well and truly numbered. The problem is that the computer parts people are taking a while to ...