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What is a optical drive and waht does it do?
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.
What is a optical drive?
A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
Can a SATA optical drive be used Instead of an IDE optical drive?
Yes. But your computer needs to be properly configured for a SATA optical drive. Also, a SATA drive is better than a IDE drive.
Why is the CD-ROM drive is called the optical drive?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
What is an optical hard drive?
A optical drive is essentially what you put CD's DVD's and install discs into.
What is the common name for Numerical aperture?
f-stop is the common name for the ratio of optical diameter expressed as a function of focal depth.
Is there a jumper on the optical drive?
No
Why is the CD rom called the optical drive?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
Is disk drive an example of optical storage?
no,harddisk is not an optical storage
What is a slave optical drive?
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.
What is the purpose of the optical drive?
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.
What is another name for a logical drive?
Another common name for a logical drive is a partition.
