CD Drives
CDs were first developed by the music industry to complete with, then replace, vinyl records. The CD drives in PCs are all capable of playing music CDs without the aid of any other hardware, and most come with a headphone jack right on the front of the drive. A CD holds a three mile-long spiral of information, where the location of a particular item is measured in minutes and seconds from the beginning, as if it were being played in a stereo. The difference between music CDs, data CDs, and all the various hybrids is strictly a matter of formatting. The speed at which your computer plays a music CD is fixed to be the same speed at which stereos play CDs, and this became known as single speed or 1X. The standard CD drives in use today can read data CDs at peak of 50X or faster.
CD Drives
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