Now when you are backing up or sharing information, use Online disk There should be more, followed by USB flash drives and mobile hard disks. However, in the past two years, the use of online disks is not reliable. The speed and privacy are basically not guaranteed, and it is not suitable for sharing some important content. When using USB flash drives, it is sometimes not convenient to switch between Windows, Mac and Linux.
So if you want to save some important content for a long time, the CD should be a good choice. But now most laptops and PCs do not provide the location of the CD drive, so you need to equip an additional external CD drive. Recently, I got an external USB 3.0 CD drive from ORICO.
The package of this external optical drive is relatively simple. After all, it is a practical gadget. The key is to be portable and stable, so it is more convenient to use.
In addition to the optical drive itself, the package also provides two data cables. One is the USB Micro-B to USB-C and USB-A data cable, which can be used normally on some laptops with only USB-C interface; The second is a Micro USB to USB-A interface, which is mainly used to provide additional power to the optical drive.
The reason why additional power supply is needed is that ORICO is not only an optical drive, but also comes with SD and TF cards card reader , as well as two USB 3.0 interfaces, so it can be used as a laptop docking station. When you want to read and write CDs and mobile hard disks at the same time, you can connect additional power supply to avoid the decline of CD drive reading and writing performance.
The design of this optical drive is very light and thin, so it will be convenient to carry it when you go out. Its side is the main interface location, and one side of it has USB Micro-B interface and Micro USB interface, which are mainly used for data transmission and power supply.
On the optical drive tray side, there is also a pop-up button and a power light, which is easy to operate. When we read and write CDs, if we encounter problems such as jamming, we can unlock the tray through the forced eject hole next to the key to remove the CDs stuck in it.
After connecting this optical drive to PC and other devices via USB, it can be recognized quickly. Then, just press the eject key on the optical drive or use the eject command in the system to eject the optical drive directly.
Then we can put in the CD to read and write. ORICO's CD drive supports the reading and writing of common CD formats, such as DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW. It has good compatibility and can now be used by all common CD types on the market.
In actual use, compared with storage devices such as USB flash disk and hard disk, optical disk may have no advantage in speed, but reliable It has good performance and low cost. It can save some ordinary content and use a slightly cheaper CD. If it is important data, it is necessary to choose a file disk. It will be OK to keep it for ten years after it is backed up.
At present, this ORICO CD drive is mainly used to back up some music and some rarely used Software In actual use, there is little difference between the operation and the USB flash disk. Unless the content in a specific format is made, there is no need to install additional software. In addition, the compatibility of this external optical drive is also good. It can easily switch between Windows, Linux and other systems, saving storage format conversion Trouble.
If some data was stored in the CD before, it can also be read and backed up through this external CD drive. Whether it is backed up to the hard disk or burned to a new CD, it is very convenient to use.
