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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Apple puts CD-RW drives and combo drives on most of its newer Mac models except for the low-end iBook, but that still leaves hundreds of thousands of older Mac models out there without the ability to ...

In addition to high-speed recording on CD-R and CD-RW media, the Samsung SM-352BRNS DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive ($80 street) can play DVD-ROM media and movies. The drive ships with cables for ...

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...