There are several kinds of drives which may be part of a computer. A drive is the device which computers use to receive and store information. Some of these drives are accessible to the user and some are not. What follows is a brief description of the more common kinds of drives built into a computer. Floppy Drives Floppy drives are the drives even people unfamiliar with computers would most probably have knowledge about.
Floppy drives accept the insertion of a floppy disk into the computer.
A floppy has a metal cover which is opened when inserted into the floppy drive allowing the computer to read its contents. Floppy disks are the most common way for people to exchange information from one computer to another. This is done by saving information on the floppy disk and then inserting that disk into another computer to read. CD-ROM drives are also usually found on the front of the computer and accessed by pushing a button to eject the slide out container. For that reason, one CD-ROM is often used to contain large programs or other extensive information groupings that would require many floppy disks to house the same information.