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2. Caddy (hardware) - Wikipedia

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   In computer hardware, a caddy is a container used to protect an optical media disc from damage when handling. Its functionality is similar to that of the 3.5" floppy disk 's jacket. Its use dates back to at least the Capacitance Electronic Disc in 1981, and they were also used in initial versions of the Blu-ray Disc . [ 1 ]

3. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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   Read-only DVD and Blu-ray drives are also manufactured, but are less commonly found in the consumer market and mainly limited to media devices such as game consoles and disc media players. Laptop computers used to come with built-in optical drives. Some laptop computers used modular systems (see Lenovo UltraBay).

4. Optiarc - Wikipedia

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   Among other things, Sony Optiarc supplied the Blu-ray drives for the Sony PlayStation 3. The naming scheme for the drives is as follows: DDU stands for DVD-ROM, AD stands for DVD-RW, BR for BD-ROM and BC for BD Combo. A combo drive is a drive that only supports the newer format in reading and the predecessor in writing.

5. Removable media - Wikipedia

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   USB flash drives [5] Portable storage devices. Dedicated external solid-state drives (SSD) Enclosured mass storage drives, i.e. modified hard disk drives (HDD)/internal SSDs; Peripheral devices that have integrated data storage capability Digital cameras; Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and handheld game consoles; Portable media players

6. Combo drive - Wikipedia

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   A combo drive is a type of optical drive that combines CD-R/CD-RW recording capability with an ability to read (but not write) DVD media; some manufacturers refer this as CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The term was used almost exclusively by Apple as a name for the low-end substitute for their high-end SuperDrive , as the latter was designed to both read ...

7. External storage - Wikipedia

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   Today the term external storage most commonly applies to those storage devices external to a personal computer. [5] The terms refer to any storage external to the computer. Storage as distinct from memory in the early days of computing was always external to the computer as for example in the punched card devices and media. Today storage ...