| There was a time not so long ago that the only disk | | | | 700 Megabytes, you can see how optical drives can |
| drives you had on a computer was the infamous 3 1 | | | | save you time and space on your desk. |
| 2 inch floppy drive. The monstrosities have been out | | | | The optical disk drives use either a laser or |
| dated numerous times by different drives including zip | | | | electromagnetic head that reads waves near the light |
| drives and now optical disk drives. The older floppy | | | | spectrum. This not only allows you to save more |
| drives, as they were called, used a magnetic head to | | | | information in a smaller space but it also lets the drive |
| read the information that was saved on the floppy | | | | read and write at a faster speed than the older |
| disk. This was more in line with cassette recorders | | | | magnetic drives. With the ability to read and write |
| and made it possible to record and save information | | | | faster, you find yourself being more productive in |
| on the computing side rather than having an external | | | | whatever it is you are doing. |
| tape drive. | | | | These days, however, all of the computers and |
| Since the advent of the optical drive, saving | | | | laptops have an optical drive and very few of them |
| information from your computer has gone through a | | | | ever use floppy disks anymore. In fact, it might be |
| few changes. The floppy disk was only able to hold | | | | rather difficult to even find a computer these days |
| so much data and you usually had to have multiple | | | | that has the ability to read a floppy disk. Since the |
| disks in order to contain all the information you | | | | advent of DVD drives, you might soon find that it will |
| wanted to save. Optical disk drives let you use CD or | | | | be difficult to even be able to put a regular CD in |
| DVD disks and allows you to save much more | | | | your computer and make it work before too long. |
| information in a small space. With DVD disks being | | | | Although, you might be surprised at what the future |
| upwards in the Gigabyte range and CDs being around | | | | holds when it comes to holographic drives! |