... and transferring small files. It really does not matter which make of FDD you purchase as they are cheap and performs the same task. CD-ROM DVD-ROM Nearly all operating systems and applications software comes on CD. It is therefore essential to have a CD-ROM drive for installing your applications. Certain ... used for playing standard audio CD's on your PC. If you are intending to watch DVD movies on your PC then you would require a DVD-ROM which can perform all the tasks of a CD-ROM as well as play DVD movies. CD-ROM's come in various speeds, the faster drive, the faster it will ... s...

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... they have a large capacity of 680 megabytes. They are also extremely durable. The devices cost about $130 to $200. A DVD-ROM disk, digital video disc, is another form of the CD technology. The DVD began as an alternate to VHS cassettes, but they are now prevailing in the computer industry. The writable ... DVD has a fairly large capacity, holding about 5.2 gigabytes of data, and it has a much faster access speed than that of the ... CD-R and CD-RW. Its device is the most expensive, on average costing $500. The DVD itself costs $25 (Parsons and Oja 44). ... Floppy disk? Zip disk? Super...

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