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Definition - What does Optical Drive mean? An optical drive is a type of computer disk drive that reads and writes data from optical disks through laser beaming technology. This type of drive allows a user to retrieve, edit and delete the content from optical disks such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Optical drives are among the most common computer components.
There are two main types of drives that your computer uses. The first is a hard drive which is used for storage, and the second is an optical drive used to read CDs and DVDs. A DVD-RW drive is an optical drive. On a desktop computer, the DVD-RW drive will normally be located on the front-upper portion of the case. On a laptop computer, the DVD-RW drive will normally be located along the side of the base. DVD-RW