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.

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The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) transferred data at 1.39MB per second, sufficient for movies. By doubling the spindle ...

CD-ROM - read only, the data is written to them before they are sold. CD-R - meaning CD-Recordable, the user can write data to the CD once or fill it over time using multi-session (writing to the ...