Optical Media

I do not use the laptop's DVD drive frequently, in fact only on extremely rare occasion. Therefore, I am thinking of removing the built-in optical drive to save on weight. However, I wonder if it is OK to leave the gap open? Or a caddy should be purchased to seal the gap up.

I am trying to get a siberia 840 which needs to be plugged in with optical cable for full performance and 7.1 dolby surround sound. Unfortunately my laptop does not have an optical out. Is there a way to solve this without losing any kind of audio quality?

Lets ask the community.. I have this Samsung notebook: model: np300e7a It has an HDD in it and an Optical drive. As soon as i replace the HDD with an SSD, and i boot up the notebook, it gets to the screen where it only recognizes the Optical drive. When i check the bios it says: Sata port 1...

Im going down the route of mini ITX. Most ITX cases dont contain an option to hold my pionee 9 16x bluray optical drive. I was thinking about getting an external bluray optical drive which most of them have 6x read/write speed. The pioneer one has a read speed of 12x so would this drive be...

I just picked up this laptop with a dead harddrive, popped in a working harddrive and we're up and running. I'm looking to add an SSD for booting and will literally never use a DVD drive. I'm trying to find the right caddy, or if I can use something generic that would fit properly I'm all for...

I purchased a 6300 series 4k TV from Costco and the set only has an optical out for audio. I have a Bose (2009) Cinemate digital system with RCA inputs. I purchased a optical to RCA converter and the TV audio sounds great. When I switch to Netflix or YouTube the volume cuts off and it is loud...

Hey. I bought a SSD for my laptop. To get additional memory I bought an adapter to put my HDD instead of DVD-ROM. As you can predict it don't work properly. I tried something in regedit, clean refreshing my win10, tried even on win7 and still nothing. My HDD disappears when i reboot/turn off...

Hi there, I'm looking for a laptop with an optical drive around the 200$ mark. It doesn't have to be a beast of a laptop but has to have an optical driven and windows. I'll even consider getting an optical drive adapter for the hell of it. It just needs reasonable strength. My uncle is just an...

I've purchased a lenovo C2000 today. The specs say that it has an optical drive. I can see the slot but where is the eject button????

I have decided to buy a laptop,but it doesnt have an internal optical drive so i will have to buy an external one.Now i alredy have a pc that has problems with reading cd/dvds.I was wondering if i could use the external optic drive both on my lapotop and my pc whenever i need it? Thanks in advance!

I have been trying to get my recently resurrected desktop up to full running speed and the major snag that I have hit is that I cannot get any sound out of this thing. I have tried the back panel connection, the front panel connection, installed the newest driver, rolled back to my old driver...

Hi guys, I have a quick question concerning an acer laptop I'm going to get soon. This is it here: Acer i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD My question is, given this laptop, is there any way to know if it can fit two drives inside? I can't find a spec sheet for it anywhere using its model number. It...

Recently, i decided to add a ssd to my optical drive for installing windows(faster boot up). My dvd is 9.5mm with sata interface so i bought a 9.5mm hdd caddy and after i insert the caddy into the optical drive, the bios could detect it but it wouldn't show it in the desktop. Disk management...

Can anyone point me towards any 17" laptops which have 2 HDD bays? Both bays need to be able to take 2.5" HDDs rather than one HDD and one SSD. I don't want to swap out the optical drive (in fact, bluray would be icing on the cake). I have a history of using dells and acers so they would be my...

feed a firewire into a 8.1 laptop that only has usb inputs

I own a 3 year old LG plasma 50 inch tv model number 50PN4500 and i just bought a new Bose sound bar. The main connection is via digital optical output cord. Now my TV HAS one, but when i plugged the Bose digital output cord into the digital optical output in the back of the TV, i go into my tv...

1. What is your budget? 1500 Euro 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Any size 3. What screen resolution do you want? Not important. But I prefer a NON-touch one because they consume a lot and I don't use them 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop...

Hey guys, Just wondering which would generally be the better option out of these two. Only real difference I can spot is that one has an optical drive and the other doesn't, but I'm not particularly tech-savvy so I just basically wanted to know if there were any real big differences between...

I just went out and bought an inexpensive DVD player, and it has the cables that are red, white & yellow. No HDMI slot so that's not an option. My TV is a: Sanyo 32" LCD 720p 60Hz HDTV | DP32242 (see photo of connecting ports below) The DVD Player is a Sanyo FWDP105F (also photo below of...

The optical disk drive in my laptop will not eject, read cds at all! For the longest while I noticed it was giving issues. Made a loud enough noise when a cd was in there. Normally when I turn my laptop on I hear a sound from the optical drive which means it's working. Now no sound/won't eject...