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Buffalo Technology produces computer products for business and consumer use. Some of the products that they manufacture are wireless routers, portable hard drives, network storage, and optical disk drives.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
Optical character recognition technology
DVDs or CDs
EIDE
Most optical drives use two connections. The first connection is for power. The second connection is for data. Of course, it also uses screws or clips to attach it to the system.
Many things, from teletypes to disk drives.
Xrays. Microwaves for cleaning equipment. The drills. And the cameras (I have forgot the name optical something) they use.
Lightscribe was a set of technologies that allowed users to use their optical drives to write data onto optical media (read: CDs and DVDs) as well as produce labels using the same laser diode.
No. Optical storage is something that can be read using the aid of light. So CD's, DVD's would be examples of optical storage. Spinning hard drives are not optical either. They use magnetism to store data.
There are three common standards CD drives use to interface with a system. They are known as USB, SCSI and IDE. With the modern technology, new interfaces will come into play.
use a laser to read and write data. Optical disks have very large storage capacity but they are not fast as hard disks. There are three basic types of optical disks: CD-ROM, WORM and erasable. DVD-ROM is higher- capacity disc