An optical disc drive reads a disc by shining a laser on it and detecting the reflected beam. The reflectivity of a disc varies across its surface, which determines the intensity of the reflected beam. Photodiodes detect this reflected beam and produce electrical signals, which are interpreted as data.
A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
The disk drive
no,harddisk is not an optical storage
Its an acronym for Optical Disk Drive.
No a disk drive is neither input or output device, it is an optical disk drive (for CD/DVD's) and a disk drive (for hard drives) would be a storage device.
In the computer, at the left side...
Depends on manufacturer.
# Hard Disk Drive (HDD) # Floppy Disk # CD Disk # USB Disk # SD Card
"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".
Head – The device that reads and writes the information—magnetic or optical—on the disk surface.
Optical disk drives are also known as cd roms for your computer. They allow you to store data and burn information on them from the disk drive slot on your computer.
It is a compact disk. Or it could be anything under optical disk drive.