Definition Optical Drive

  In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) or CD drive is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves near the light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from discs, but the new drives are usually both readers and recorders. Recorders are sometimes called burners or writers. Compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray is a common type of optical media that can be read and recorded by the drive.
   Optical disc drive is an integral part of the stand-alone consumer devices such as CD players, DVD players and DVD recorders. They are also very commonly used in computers for reading software and consumer media is distributed in the form of discs, and to record discs for archival and data exchange. With optical drive with flash memory-has been largely displaced floppy disk drives and magnetic tape drives for this purpose because of low cost optical media and everywhere near-optical drives in computers and consumer entertainment hardware.
   Recording discs are generally limited to small-scale backup and distribution, become slower and more expensive per unit of material from the printing process used to mass produce discs pressed.

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