It's input I think, not that sure, but I just know that it reads data from a disc and then views them onto the computer screen. :)
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).
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.
It scans and input data into a PC. (Input device)
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.
Input device
Mechanical input device
Yes, OCR or Optical Character Recognition is an input device.
No, it is an input device as it reads (and does not write)
A CDROM drive is neither an input device or an output device. A CDROM drive is a storage device.
An optical drive is primarily considered an input/output device. It allows users to read data from optical discs (like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays) and write data to these discs, facilitating both data retrieval (input) and data storage (output). However, it is not classified as a storage device itself; rather, it accesses external storage media.
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