If you want to use the new HDD/SSD to boot from, you will need to download the OSX software and install it on the 2nd HDD/SSD you just installed and make that the primary boot drive. Add 9to5Mac ...

(Swapping the optical drive for an SSD works only for recent MacBook Pros that treat the optical drive as just another Serial ATA device, like a hard disk. I couldn’t avail myself of this approach ...

If you don’t need a second optical drive but having additional hard disk space sounds helpful, you may be interested in the $39 Pro Caddy from Trans International.

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity discs as well. According to its Japanese website (via Tom's Hardware), the BDR-213JBK ...

In case you haven't noticed, very few netbooks have ever shipped with an optical drive. You've either had to get a more expensive ultraportable, a thin-and-light or an external ODD in order to ...

Next year a version of the HyDrive with 256GB of SSD storage inside will be unveiled. In addition to having storage space inside the optical drive, the device will be able to read and write to CDs ...

Classic disc-based consoles are getting long in the tooth. As their optical drives burn out, they’re rendered unplayable, which is a shame -- these systems were the peak of gaming in the eyes of ...

Hitachi-LG outed most of the major details for its forthcoming HyDrive last week, but the company just officially took the wraps off the world's first SSD-equipped laptop optical drive. Frankly ...