Optical disc drive...

An optical disc drive in a computer system allows you to use CD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs to listen a music or watch a movie etc... Most drives used are allow you to write data to a disc, so you can create your own data file or create back-up copy of important data and file.

These discs are read by light (optical) they should be referred to as an optical disc, not optical disk.

These functions are unique to optical support are:

• CD-ROM devices are most use to formatting pc.
• DVD devices directly attached optical media library devices
• LAN-local area network
• Virtual optical devices are use.

It is data read and write using laser.

 

Type of optical disc:

1.CD-ROM:

• Older type Optical Drives included the CD-ROM Drive which were only able to read compact disks (CDs). 
• There were also CD-R Drives which could also burn data 
• CD-RW compact disk which can be written to and erased many times.

2.DVA and Blueray

• Today a standard DVD Optical Drive and Blueray can read and write to compact disks, as well as disks. Some drives will let you read and write to Dual-layer & Triple-layer Disks. 
• You can also use Blu-ray Optical Drive which uses much very higher capacity disks than standard DVD and can proper image hold high definition films and high resolution video.  

Now days Popular software for burning an optical disk include Nero,free star and Roxio Creator.