Computer Multimedia Drives

Selecting Multimedia Drives

Multimedia drives include drives such as CD (Compact Disk), DVD (Digital Video Disk), and CD or DVD burners. It's pretty much up to you as what type of drive you get. It just depens on your actual needs. I do recommend going with a DVD drive. The reason for this is because as software programs get bigger an bigger, a lot of them now are shipped on DVD's. Most, if not all DVD drives can read CD's as well, so you're covered either way. It's also a good idea to get a DVD drive that can write to CD's for a couple of reasons. A writable CD (CD-R or CD-RW) is a good way to back up your important files and it's a good way to transfer files from one computer to another if you don't have a network available.