They are used for reading data stored onto compact disks like music, photos, documents, and programs.
A floppy drive or a CD drive or a DVD drive.
A CD-ROM drive.
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You can store files on CD-RW and also CD-R. Flash drives are a little better though.
They're mainly used for computers that lack one (usually small netbooks) but could be used as secondary CD-ROM drives.
DVD-Burners are backward compatible. They can also be used to burn CD's. There have also been made a lot of varieties of DVD players that can burn CD's but not DVD's.
it can be used to write rewritable cd's
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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.
Not necessarily. You can have a CD/DVD reading drive that does not write.
the CD drive has lasers which read the CD, so the CD has pieces that can be read.
CD-RW drive's can rewrite data on the disks.