What is Optical Disk Drive ? Types and Important Points

What is Optical Disk Drive (ODD) ?

Ans. Opti­cal disk dri­ves (ODD) can read and write data from and to an opti­cal disks

What are the Different ODD ?

Ans. Dif­fer­ent Opti­cal Disk Dri­ves are:

• CD Dri­ve
• DVD Dri­ve
• Blu-ray Dri­ve

Important Points About ODD are :

• Com­pact discs (CD) are opti­cal stor­age devices used to store and dis­trib­ute var­i­ous forms of data such as soft­ware, music and movies.
• A CD dri­ve is required to read or write data from or to a CD.
• Dig­i­tal Ver­sa­tile Disk or Dig­i­tal Video Disk (DVD) is a form of dig­i­tal storage.
• The stor­age capac­i­ty of a DVD is 4.7 GB which is approx­i­mate­ly sev­en times that of a CD.
• DVD dri­ves can read dif­fer­ent types of DVDs.
• Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-gen­er­a­tion opti­cal disc format.
• While eval­u­at­ing a DVD-ROM dri­ve for your PC, you need to check the dri­ve’s per­for­mance spec­i­fi­ca­tions i.e. speed and deter­mine the type of inter­face require for the dri­ve to con­nect to the PC.
• The speed of a DVD dri­ve is denot­ed by mul­ti­ple of X and 1X = 1352.54 KB/s
• Prop­er instal­la­tion and con­fig­u­ra­tion of the DVD dri­ve is very impor­tant for the prop­er work­ing of the DVD drive.
• IDE/SATA cable con­nects the DVD dri­ve to the moth­er­board of the computer.
• Trou­bleshoot­ing the DVD dri­ve can elim­i­nate most of the prob­lems of the DVD drive.