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The CD drive is the most common drive used in computers today. A standard CD-ROM drive will only read the CD’s you use to load programs, play music or access files on backup CD’s produced by a CD-Burner. A CD-Burner however gives you the opportunity to copy your files to a 700MB disk at the cost of about 20 cents per disk. The CD-Burner can also be used to create music CD’s when you want to copy a music CD or transfer files from your hard drive (such as mp3’s) to play them in your vehicle or on your stereo. A CD-Burner can also be used as a backup device for storing important information off of your hard drive, which is always prone to failure or corruption due to system errors. A combination of both drives in one computer makes copying CD’s easier and also create a redundancy point in case one drive fails, you will have a backup drive until the system gets repaired when you have both drives.
A DVD drive will play DVD movies when coupled with an adequate video card. A DVD drive will also read CD-Roms and can be used for installing software and playing games. The DVD-Burner gives you the ability to write data such as music files, word documents or system backups to a disc that will hold 4.7GB (4,700MB) of data. The DVD-Burner can store almost 7 times as much data per disk as a CD-Burner can at the cost of about $3.50 a disk.
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