Rear of the drive
An IDE Drive is not the same as a SATA drive, for starters. If you want your optical drive to be the master on an IDE channel you can jumper it to make it such. The second drive on the IDE channel must then be jumpered as a slave. If the optical drive is the only drive on the channel then it ought to be jumpered as the master. Alternatively, you may be able to set both drives to "Cable Select" and let the cable position determine the priority. This presumes that your ribbon cable is of a newer design and supports this option.
A Optical drive is hardware that read and drive a DVD disk or programs.
It upgrades your hard drive
Yes. But your computer needs to be properly configured for a SATA optical drive. Also, a SATA drive is better than a IDE drive.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
A optical drive is essentially what you put CD's DVD's and install discs into.
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
no,harddisk is not an optical storage
Well an optical drive is a cd/dvd disk drive. Slave means it is in the secondary position on an IDE cable. So a slave optical drive is a cd/dvd drive positioned secondary to a different device on a singular IDE cable.
An optical drive is for reading and possibly writing to optical media such as a CD or DVD. It is pretty much used like any other drive in a computer. Older optical drives could only read data and could not burn disks.
An optical drive, or more accurately an optical disk drive (ODD) is medium for storing digital data. Examples are CD, DVD and blu-ray. The characteristic of an optical drive system is that beams of light (typically laser) are used to read the medium.