If you bought a Dell, Lenovo, or HP computer during the Vista or Windows 7 era, your DVD burner was likely a PLDS. For many users, their first encounter with PLDS was via the PLDS DL-8ATA (or similar DH-8A series). These were slim, SATA laptop drives.
Not bad for a piece of plastic. Do you still have a working PLDS drive? Or did yours succumb to the dreaded "stuck tray" issue? Let us know in the comments below! plds dvd
While your modern PC case likely doesn't even have a 5.25-inch bay, the legacy of PLDS lives on in the millions of discs they helped burn, the TV shows they played, and the OS reinstalls they facilitated. If you bought a Dell, Lenovo, or HP
In the era of cloud storage and 128GB USB drives, talking about DVDs feels like dusting off a relic. But for anyone who built a PC between 2007 and 2015, the name PLDS was unavoidable. Not bad for a piece of plastic
You might not remember buying a PLDS drive specifically, but chances are you owned one. Whether it was a sleek slot-loading mechanism in an all-in-one HP desktop or a standard tray drive in an Acer laptop, PLDS was the ghost in the machine.