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What is an optical hard drive?
A optical drive is essentially what you put CD's DVD's and install discs into.
Does the iPad have a CD player built in?
No. There is no place to put the actual CD in the iPad. However, by installing an alternative to the default iPad music player, you can simulate a CD player visually. Go to the Apple Apps Store and search for "CD Player".
What is a slave optical drive?
Well an optical drive is a cd/dvd disk drive. Slave means it is in the secondary position on an IDE cable. So a slave optical drive is a cd/dvd drive positioned secondary to a different device on a singular IDE cable.
What is a optical drive and waht does it do?
Optical drive is just another fancy name for DVD drive or CD drive and it is usually found in in laptops and computer and is used to play any tyoe of DVD or CD.
What scans the CD?
The laser inside the CD/DVD optical drive does the scanning.
Why is the CD-ROM drive is called the optical drive?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
Which technology is used in a CDROM Drive ?
To read CD-ROM's, the technology in a CD-ROM drive is an optical disc drive (ODD). It typically utilizes light to retrieve information on a disc.
What is a limitation of a cd-r drive that isnt an issue with a cd-rw drive?
CD-R isn't rewritable at all. A CD-RW can be rewritten on.
What part of the computer reads an optical disk?
The disk drive
Why is the CD rom called the optical drive?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
Why is it that laptop optical drive is easy to replace?
There are severnal reasons: 1. The optical drive is relatively independent device for computer, supports plug and play, ne need install any driver programs mostly. So, it is easy to replay. 2. More and more people think the opical drive is useless, since you can dowload data and watch movies online without buying physical optical disc. So the optical is regarded as a optional part not like hard disk, cpu or motherboard which are neccessory for laptop. 3. When you think the optical drive is useless, you may buy a 2nd hdd caddy to replace it, then your laptop can have two hard disk, you have more storage capacity. 4. The optical drive is easy to break down since the laser lens in it is very fragile. You have to replace it when it is defective. 5. Sometimes, you want to upgrade your optical drive, like from dvd player to dvd writer, from dvd drive to blu-ray player, from blu-ray player to blu-ray burner. In a word, the characteristics of optical drive decide that it is easy to replace. The goal is to provide better user experience. For more details, please visit: eeshops.net. You may buy the suitable 2nd HDD caddy to extend the storage space when you do not need optical drive any longer. Or buying the best blu-ray drive to upgrade your cd/dvd drive.
Can you burn CD's on a laptop?
Buy an optical external disk drive.
