As a general rule of thumb, for basic components, brand doesn't matter. Any modern name brand will in all likelihood be as good as another.
Panasonic have the longest warranties available.
Plextor drives are well known and are very durable, lasting well beyond their warranty.
Yes.
The Certance CD 72 Internal tape drive is a very reliable model
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.
Different brand and model cd drives make different amounts of noise, and some make a lot of noise.
Some older CD-ROM drives may have problems reading CD-RW discs. As long as the drive is capable of reading them, it doesn't matter what brand the writer or the CD-RW was.
The drive tray is the flat panel that slides out of the CD drive, onto which the CD is inserted.
A CD Drive reads CDs.A CD-R drive writes to CD-R discs. Rewrite not possible.A CD-RW drive writes to CD-RW discs. Rewrite capable.CD drive can only read a CD and not write to it, the drive is called a CD-ROM drive. CD-R is a recordable drive, it will burn to CD-R discs, which can only be burned to one time.CD-RW drives support CD-R and CD-RW, which is the ability to burn to CD-RW discs, which can be burned to, and erased, hundreds of times.
A CD in header is the conncetion in where the CD drive is plugged into which then allow the computer to reconize the drive for it to operate correctly and in the right manner, also it transfers power to the CD drive which also allows the CD drive to funtion.
A normal CD drive is an input device. A CD-R or CD-RW drive would do both input and output.