Optical Drive

Caring for Optical Drive

By mallongi

Optical drives have become standard components for PC and Laptop, with the optical drive you can store data in a storage media, to play files such as movies and animated games, and listen to songs from your pet scrap CD or DVD.
How to Work General Optical Drive
As well as disk (CD & DVD) of the speckle pattern and the plain (the flat part of the spot is also known as base or flat) to record sound, and bounce-ray laser to read the spot and the plains, the optical drives store data as a row value ‘zero’ and ‘one’. Optical drives arranged in a spiral track that formed from the disk to the outside. Data can be stored in the optical drive that has at least 16,000 tracks per inch and length of track spiral approximately 3 miles, is capable of recording data of 1 Billion more characters. Data recorded as a set of small dots in the surface layer of the disk with laser rays. Therefore, the data stored can not be removed and the disk can not be re-used for other purposes (unless the media type CD-RW or DVD-RW)
Technology for the spiral flow of data storage with a recording Linier Constant Velocity (CLV). To maintain a constant altitude linier (number of seconds per inch is constant), the optical drive mechanism that drives the player who is able to play a powerful drive more slowly when the head read / write to the outside near the disk.
Reading data on the optical drive is to shoot infra red rays to detect a certain position on a disk in the dots of burnt or not, and the information is translated into data readable by a PC or laptop. At the time of reading, infra red rays taken following the track bounce ago, because the track perforated, the reflection is not always about the hole edge, the rays will be deflected to the corner and not reflected back to the sensor. Detector close to the lens receiving ray diffraction laser reflection. Rays from the detector is translated into data. With the way this data in the disk surface can be read

Choosing a good Optical Drive
To buy an optical drive or an external optical drive, it’s good you know the steps are performed.

• Pay attention to speed

In choosing optical drive, if it is said about the speed, is the most select in the main optical drive. . This aims to make the performance more quickly in the case of reading the media disk (CD or DVD), in addition to the speed of optical drives that can read the disk media is less good, and who have disabilities and so forth, this is because the size of the optical drive speed indicates the size of the light beam and the optic disk rotation speed so that the scratches on the surface of the disk media does not affect the reading too.

• Test readings

Speed is the key in determining the selection of optical drives, optical drives, but many who have high-speed, level of reading is not perfect with the same optical drive that has a low speed. To make a reading test taken the CD or DVD Movies, if at the time of screening, the resulting picture does not mean stagnant stagnating-optical drives good for you.

• Note the noise

Each lecture requires certain optical drive in rotation speed of the disk, which can cause noise. Noise round disk will cause a high risk of the media disk will be broken in and Servo drive fast weakening. Choose the optical noise that does not have that high.

• Heat incurred

One of the factors that cause the most rapid heat is incurred in excess of the standard. Many optical drives circulating in the market has a high level of heat. This may feel you know the heat on the bottom of the casing after use (about 30 minutes). Optically drive to that which is durable, heat caused not so high, and this is usually on the optical drives that are good enough

• Note the indicator

Indicator is a light guide optical drive it is working. For optical drives it is said, when the indicator does not blink too long (approximately 3 seconds), if more than that the optical drive in a less well

• Consider the price

The last thing that should be considered is the issue price. Usually the price is certainly a good quality and the Technology that is used with a selling price of comparable optical drive is. Should use optical drives on the best brands and the famous

Tips Caring Optical Drive

• Make cleaning optic 1x or 2x per month, to eliminate dust on the surface of the lens optic with a soft cloth and use a CD cleaner available at computer stores and electronics stores
• Keep dust and dirt from a simple stick on the optical drive, for example avoiding smoking near the PC & Laptop
• Do not use the media that there are many scratches on the surface, because it can cause the optic disk will work harder to read in data, and the result will be weak optic
• Do not use too often the media disk with pirated songs and movies, because the pirated movie and song writing is not as good as the original