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A optical drive is essentially what you put CD's DVD's and install discs into.
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What data cable attatches to the optical drive?
A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
What is an eide cable?
The cable connects between the motherboard of the computer and the hard-drive or optical drive.
What is the correct spelling for computer disc drive?
"Disc" refers to optical media, such as CDs or DVDs. "Disk" refers to magnetic media, such as hard drives. So the answer depends on which drive you are referring to; most have both an "optical disc drive", and a "hard disk drive".
What is the easist component to replace on a laptop?
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.
Examples of a computer hardware?
Case / power supply, Motherboard, CPU, Memory, Optical drive, Hard drive...
The part that moves the read write heads back and forth within a hard drive or optical drive is called what?
sfasa
What is each piece of hardware that is part of a computer system?
CPU Motherboard Ram Graphics controller Hard drive Optical Drive
What are examples of computer technologies?
Motherboard, hard drive, CPU, GPU, cooling fans, optical drives, floppy drive and powersupply.
What is a optical drive?
A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
Is external CD drive output or input?
Neither. Is Your hard drive input or output? Neither. It is simply a storage device as a flash drive or internal optical drive would be.
What are examples of computer hardware technology?
Motherboard, hard drive, CPU, GPU, cooling fans, optical drives, floppy drive and powersupply.
How is a bit stored in an optical disk?
As data in binary format of 0 & 1 on hard drive sectors.
