Neither in a drawer nor in a bin – here's a great place to safely store your old hard drives

Traditional mechanical hard drives can be a cheap and easy storage method even in the age of SSDs, but it's important to ...
Game Rant

PS5 Disc Drive Is Back in Stock, But You May Need to Act Fast

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...
Ars Technica

The PS5 Pro brings the game console’s disc drive era to an end

Here at Ars, we’ve been publicly musing about whether the world was ready for a disc-free game console since as far back as 2015. Now, though, the better question might be whether the world ever needs ...
Game Rant

PlayStation 5 Disc Drive Shortage Frustrating Fans

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...
Gameranx

You’ll Need To Go Online To Finish Adding The New Optional PS5 Disc Drive

Sony may not be able to remove these requirements later New information has come to light about the optional disc drive that will be found in the upcoming smaller PlayStation 5 models. As reported by ...
PC Magazine

PS5 Slim Needs an Internet Connection to Install the Disc Drive

Retail boxes for the PS5 Slim have revealed an internet connection is required to pair the detachable disc drive to the console before it can be used. As Eurogamer reports, Sony decided to add a ...
The Verge

The new PS5’s detachable disc drive reportedly needs an internet connection for setup

After you’ve paired the console and optical drive, you’ll be in the clear. But some are already annoyed by the requirement. After you’ve paired the console and optical drive, you’ll be in the clear.
CNET

Do Consoles Need a Disc Drive? Hands-On With the All-Digital Xbox Series X

The new all-digital configuration of the Xbox Series X ditches the disc drive and (slightly) drops the price to under $450. Sean Booker Former Senior Video Producer As Senior Video Producer at CNET, ...
Polygon

Where to buy a disc drive for your PS5 or PS5 Pro

If you plan to pick up a slim PS5 digital edition or the PS5 Pro, you probably know already that you’ll be needing a disc drive if you want to play Blu-ray games and movies. Sony makes a $79.99 ...
SlashGear

This One Leaked PS5 Slim Detail Has Gamers Up In Arms

As you may have heard, in October, Sony announced that after three years on the market, the PlayStation 5 would be getting the standard "slim" makeover in November. This puts it roughly on pace in the ...

Old Computer Hard Drives Were The Size Of Your Washing Machine - Here's Why

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...