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A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
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What should the replacement optical drive be on the primary IDE controller?
If replacing the optical drive on a primary IDE controller, it is important it is compatible with the CD Rom drive. The IDE data cable must be connected and you must have the power cord plugged in.
Is a optical drive input or output?
An optical drive is an input and output device. It reads data from optical discs like CDs and DVDs (input) and writes data to these discs (output).
What kind of data cable do you disconnect from the Optical drive?
Whichever kind it has. Some optical drives have SATA cables. Some have EIDE cables. Some have SCSI cables. Some might even have USB cables.If you're reading instructions that are telling you to do this, the only reason they're being specific about the data cable is to distinguish it from the power cable (possibly because if you disconnect the power cable you may not be able to eject the disk that's in the drive) or ... MAYBE ... the audio cable, because a lot of the time that's not even connected.
What is a floppy drive data cable?
a cable for connecting a floppy drive to the computer motherboard.
What is the purpose of the optical drive?
An optical drive is for reading and possibly writing to optical media such as a CD or DVD. It is pretty much used like any other drive in a computer. Older optical drives could only read data and could not burn disks.
In a system that uses a CD drive were the audio wire connects?
There is a data cable,and a power cable that connect the drive to your PC. Everything is done with the data cable, there is no audio or video wires.
What is fdd data cable?
FDD cable is for floppy disk drive (FDD).
How much data does a optical fiber cable transfer In Megabits per second please?
Optical fibre typically can transmit data at the rate of 1 Gigabit (1024 Megabits) per second
What purpose do optical drives serve?
An optical drive, or more accurately an optical disk drive (ODD) is medium for storing digital data. Examples are CD, DVD and blu-ray. The characteristic of an optical drive system is that beams of light (typically laser) are used to read the medium.
How can you tell the difference between the hard drive data cable from the floppy drive data cable?
1. A floppy cable will almost always contain a small "twist" in it, in which a port of the wires are turned in reverse.2. A floppy cable has 34 pins. A PATA hard drive cable has 40 pins.
What is the data cable used by the normal IDE CD-ROM drive?
The data cable used by the normal IDE CD-ROM drive is called the USB cable. USB stands for universal serial bus.
Is a disk drive a optical storage?
No. A disk drive can use one of several methods of storing data, including magnetic, Flash, and optical.
