Many years ago, a computer was very simple. It did not have any Floppy Disk Drives, Hard Drives or even CD-ROM Drives. Instead it used memory to store data temporarily. The problem with memory is that when the computer gets turned off, all of the data gets erased. Therefore, if a person wanted to use the same data on the computer again, he would have to re-enter all of the data instead of being able to open it from a storage area.

Luckily, permanent storage was introduced. It allowed people to work much more efficiently, because the data could be saved on disks or a hard drive, to be used later on the same computer, or on another computer. It did not stop there, though. CD-ROMs came along, later, allowing for high quality music and a lot of mobile storage space. Today, DVD-ROMs are starting to replace the CD, because they have some significant improvements over the older media.

Acer's new 16X DVD-ROM Drive delivers excellent performance.
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