Mar 01
2010
What is the difference between a dvd drive and a hard drive? Or are they the same thing?
Filed Under (dvd players) by admin on 01-03-2010
I have movies on my computer that I want to burn to a dvd. However I do not have a D (DVD) drive. When I go to purchase one do I look for a DVD drive or a hard drive? Which is better? Internal or external?
u need a dvd burner … internals are better .. there are some good externals but in my experience anyway u get alot less coasters with an internal .. newegg would be a good place to look for one ..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073
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u need a dvd burner … internals are better .. there are some good externals but in my experience anyway u get alot less coasters with an internal .. newegg would be a good place to look for one ..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073
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Put shortly, hard drives are what stores your computer’s information, and all computers must have a hard drive. DVD drives burn and read DVD discs. As you can see they have quite seperate functions
As for your second question, I would go with an internal DVD drive, unless you don’t know how to install one or can’t find someone to install it for you; I’m not quite sure how reliable external DVD drives would be.
Also make sure you buy a DVD drive capable of writing/rewriting (so you can burn discs), and not just one that can read.
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a hard drive is a storage device, basically what you would call C: it does not write disks, it is jus what you save things too.
A DvD drive reads, writes and copies DvDs.
obviously you want the latter!
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A hard drive is a drive that stores all your personal files, plus all the programs, and the operating system that your computer runs on. If you have movies on your computer already (on your hard drive), and you want to transfer them to DVD, then you need a DVD burner. You can buy an internal or external. Internal will probebly be cheaper, but to the inexperienced may be difficult to install. An external DVD drive that would connect to your computer via USB would be slightly more expensive, but easier to install… but then you have all the luggage.
Good Luck in your decision.
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