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2. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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   There were also some early CD-ROM drives for desktop PCs in which its tray-loading mechanism will eject slightly and user has to pull out the tray manually to load a CD [citation needed], similar to the tray ejecting method used in internal optical disc drives of modern laptops and modern external slim portable optical disc drives. Like the top ...

3. External storage - Wikipedia

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   Using CD-R, it is possible to write data once on a disc at home without the stamping equipment required for CD-ROMs. These are considered write once, read many disks. CD-RW: (Compact Disc Re-Writable) same as the CD-R but can be erased and reused. There is a limit on how many times a CD-RW can be written. Presently this limit is 1,000 times.

4. PowerCD - Wikipedia

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   It was analogous to Sony's Discman portable CD players of the time, however, unlike Sony's and most others, Apple's could also be used as computer peripheral as well. And while most desktop Macs at the time included built-in CD-ROMs, the PowerCD was designed to match the PowerBook series which would not include a built-in CD-ROM for several ...

5. Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

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   A disk enclosure is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid state drives while providing a mechanism to allow them to communicate to one or more separate computers. Drive enclosures provide power to the drives therein and convert the data sent across their native data bus into a format usable by an external ...

6. CD player - Wikipedia

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   The D-50 was made available on the market in 1984, [59] and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line. In 1998, portable MP3 players began to compete with portable CD players. After Apple Computer entered the music player market with its iPod line, within ten years it became the dominant seller of portable digital audio players ...

7. Seagate FreeAgent - Wikipedia

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   While the drives may be supplied with different software and styling, any drive can be used as a storage device (without added functionality afforded by operating system-specific software) on any computer with appropriate port; for example, any USB 2.0 drive can be used on Mac or PC if an appropriate file system is installed on the drive and ...

8. Compaq Portable - Wikipedia

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   The Compaq Portable was announced in November 1982 and first shipped in March 1983, [11] priced at US$2,995 (equivalent to $9,200 in 2023) with a single half-height 5 + 1 ⁄ 4" 360 KB diskette drive or US$3,590 for dual, full-height diskette drives.

9. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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   Drives 9.5 mm high became an unofficial standard for all except the largest-capacity laptop drives (usually having two platters inside); 12.5 mm-high drives, typically with three platters, are used for maximum capacity, but will not fit most laptop computers. Enterprise-class drives can have a height up to 15 mm. Seagate released a 7 mm drive ...