A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
Yes. But your computer needs to be properly configured for a SATA optical drive. Also, a SATA drive is better than a IDE drive.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
A optical drive is essentially what you put CD's DVD's and install discs into.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
No
no,harddisk is not an optical storage
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
The hard drive, the optical drive and usually memory are the easiest components to replace. Of the three, the optical drive is probably the easiest... usually one screw.