Slot-in drive

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A slot-in drive is an optical drive ( CD , DVD , Blu-ray ) with a special loading mechanism in which the data carriers are not placed in a tray as is conventionally the case, which then goes into the interior of the drive simply put in a slot (feed shaft), which then pulls them inside.

There are slot-in drives as simple read drives as well as burners . For a long time, the biggest weakness was that slot-in drives could only pull in normal sized data carriers (12 cm diameter) and not smaller disks, but this problem has been fixed with later drives.

Even before slot-in drives were used in computers , they were used in CD players for cars, for example .

Apple computers , especially those from the iMac series, have been using slot-in drives since the iMac DV was introduced in 1999, with a "Superdrive" a combined DVD-R (W) / CD-RW burner in slot-in Designation. Years before, Apple had been using slot-in-like floppy disk drives that did not have an eject button but ejected the floppy disks with their own power. Apple only uses conventional optical drives with a drawer for its computers in tower cases.