What is the purpose of optical disk drive?

Answer 1

A device for reading discs on which data is stored. They use a light laser which detects bumps and dips on the surface of a disc. these bumps and dips make up binary code which is interpreted by a computer of some sort. Optical drives include CD / DVD / Blu-Ray Disc readers or writers, as well as the already obselete HD DVD players

Answer 2

An optical drive, also known as a CD Drive or Disk Drive, is used to read CDs or DVDs. The files will be opened in Finder (Mac) or Windows Explorer (PC) or Media will normally be opened in Windows Media Player(PC) or iTunes (Mac). Modern Optical Drives can also burn files onto a CD!

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

The optical drive is a device that allows computer and other data to be written and read using an optical method, usually a laser. This is different from a computer disk drive, or hard drive, or tape drive which stores data magnetically and uses magnets to read and write data. It is also different from a usb stick (thumb drive) or SD card that stores, reads, and writes data electronically into the device's stored memory.

Examples of optical drives are LaserDisc, CD (compact disk), DVD (Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) and BlueRay.

The CD or DVD drive in a laptop allows playing recorded audio, music and videos on the computer. You can also install programs and read files from the device. If the optical device is capable of writing (burning) to a disc, then computer data, music and videos can be saved or copied to blank discs labeled as CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW. The RW designation means that the disc is erasable and rewritable.

Answer 5

An optical drive is use for read and write data from a optical disk(CD/DVD).

Answer 6

Well an optical drive is also known as a CD drive and its porpose is basically to read the disc and transmit it to cpu which process it.

Answer 7

Optical drive is used for storing data

Answer 8

To store information.