FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Optical drives are used to read ____
A
CDs
B
Flash Drives
C
Floppy Disks
D
SSDs
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An optical disc drive (ODD) in a computer system allows you to use CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs to listen to music or watch a movie. Most drives also allow you to write data to a disc, so you can create your own music CDs, video DVDs or even create of back-up copy of your important data files.

Detailed explanation-2: -A CD-ROM drive uses a low-power laser beam to read digitized (binary) data that has been encoded in the form of tiny pits on an optical disk.

Detailed explanation-3: -An optical disk drive uses a laser beam to read the data from the disk as it is spinning.

Detailed explanation-4: -An optical disc is designed to support one of three recording types: read-only (e.g.: CD and CD-ROM), recordable (write-once, e.g. CD-R), or re-recordable (rewritable, e.g. CD-RW).

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