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Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, ...

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Adding a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive to a laptop is no small investment, but if you're a digital content creator or a media producer working with high-definition video, it starts to make sense. Alienware ...

The proliferation of streaming services for music, movies, and TV shows might make a DVD drive on a laptop seem superfluous. But anyone with a sluggish internet connection or strict data caps can ...