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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His use of a 3-phase motor from a CD-ROM drive as the generator isn’t particularly unexpected, these motors are ubiquitous and readily generate power when spun up. A simple 3-phase rectifier and ...

It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly ... “We no longer support CD-ROM and Digital Download Programs, although they may still work on compatible computers ...

“Thirty years ago, we wanted to show just how much information a single CD-ROM could hold ... to recreate that again with the ...