Get a DVD or Blu-ray Player . The first thing you need to do if you want to play back DVDs or Blu-rays is get a disk drive, ...

There aren’t many chips inside a modern BluRay drive, but [stephen] did manage to find a few Flash chips. These Flash chips can be dumped to a computer using a BusPirate, and comparing the dump ...

Western Digital says that the helium "remains contained within the drive throughout its operational lifespan", which is usually between 5 and 10 years, about the same as Blu-ray. A single 18TB LTO ...