Despite the default limitation of only being able to use shared DVDs and CDs on Macs that ship without an optical drive, you can enable shared optical drive use on other Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive. Keeping an ISO backup of expensive software such as Microsoft Office on your computer ...

Organizations often create a secondary disc backup to prevent permanent loss of data or to help deploy it across multiple computers more efficiently. While burning a CD image to a blank disc is ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...