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A CD ROM drive uses discs (not "disks") as the storage media. These discs look much like audio CDs, but can store about 600M of data on a single disc. They can only be read by a normal CD ROM drive (hence Read Only Memory portion of the device's name), and take special equipment to create (write) one of them. CD ROM drives are rated in multiples of the original (1x) drives that transfer data at the same rate as audio CD Players (150kb/sec). Today, 1x drives no longer exist, and 2x drives (300-330kb/sec) are cheap. 3x (450 kbs), 4x (600 kb/sec) and even 6x (900kb/sec) drives are available. 4x drives fulfill basic requirements needed to achieve decent performance when playing animations from a CD ROM. |
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