For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that ...

The Melliful External DVD Drive is currently on sale for just $17 at Walmart. That's $23 off, as it usually costs $39, and it's the lowest price I could find for this CD/DVD reader-writer.

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x ...

You can mount ISO files or explore their contents as if you had the physical disc in your drive. This is increasingly ...