Remote Disk in Mavericks

Hi,
I just did a clean installation of Mavericks on a late 2013 iMac using a usb startup disk. Everything has gone smoothly, however I am seeing something called "Remote Disc" listed under devices. I understand this is a way to share optical drives, but I don't have an optical drive and I am not sharing anyone else's optical drive.
Does anyone know why it is there or how to get rid of it?

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