A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there ...

Although it's unlikely to happen with most discs in most drives, there have been occasional reports of discs exploding inside CD/DVD drives. In the majority of those cases, the disc was already ...

However, it was a bit of a different story for the interface that hooks up the CD drive to your computer, as [Tech Tangents] found out when he managed to get his hands on a first-generation CM100 ...