Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. Modern CD-ROM drives also play audio CDs. See CD-ROM and CD-ROM drives. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission ...

Sony Electronics today announced an internal BD-ROM drive that can upgrade an existing desktop computer into a high-definition Blu-ray Disc™ player, as well as a DVD and a CD player. The new BDU-X10S ...

How would one figure out, at which speed would his/her CD ROM drive saturate the IDE bus/speed of their current system?<BR><BR>I THINK...<BR>1x = 150 KBps<BR>2x = 300 KBps etc...<BR><BR>so i would ...

Lite-On are one of the clear players in the ROM market thanks to a massive array of drives that span from DVD to Blu-ray, internal to external and everything else that matters when it comes to buying ...

Finding this in a small, simple package has been much tougher than I ever imagined. Here's what I need: I need to be able to place a CD-ROM drive for employee use as simple as possible--no computer, ...

Page 2: Kenwood's 72X True X CDROM Drive - Page 2 Once in a blue moon, we get a product in here at Hot Hardware that absolutely knocks our socks off. It doesn't happen very often and we test a lot of ...

Q. I built a 400 Mhz Pentium II system. The CD-ROM works fine, but autoplay does not work. It does not appear in device manager, but it does in system information. MSCDEX appears in MS-DOS drivers. It ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...

This board is the prototype which [Deunan] has been working on in order to use an SD card in place of a GD-ROM drive. The idea is to fully implement the hardware protocol used by a GD-ROM drive so ...