Hard Drive and Multimedia Drives: Today, we will delve into the optical drive family used in computer desktops today. This family consists of the compact disk (CD) and the digital versatile disk (DVD).

CDs for a computer are no different than audio CDs for your CD player. They can store between 650MB to 700MB of data. As of the writing of this article (1/13/2006), CDs and CD recorders are very standard and CDs will easily interchange between equipment and maintain compatibility.

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