With every passing day, laptops are getting slimmer and slimmer, but that ultra-slim form factor comes at a cost. To achieve that, laptop manufacturers have to shed some hardware features like ...

While many people have tried to cut down on owning physical media, there are many who prefer physical media over streaming ...

Slim is definitely in, just ask Samsung, who has gone and introduced one of the skinniest external optical drives you're ever likely to see before the technology is supplanted by whatever storage ...

At first blush, the idea of the Isostick might not seem that amazing. In simplest terms, it’s a USB flash drive that your computer detects as an optical drive. But who needs something like that?

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 ...

This one nearly ended up in today’s Links post, but on second look we think it deserves a feature of its own. [Profezzorn] designed some mounting brackets to house a file server inside of an external ...

Not long ago, we saw some of the newest external Blu-ray drives hit the market. Those were useful for adding BD support to machines that lacked it, particularly smaller netbooks and ultraportables ...

There's a high likelihood that you still have an old USB relic rattling around in a drawer somewhere in the house. It could be that flash drive you've not touched in years, not even for reinstalling ...

I'm prepping for my next major build, and I'm considering some odd options. One of the boards I am looking at has 6x USB 3 connectors, which got me to thinking about setting up an external raid array ...