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Are notebook cd-roms standardized?

zephyrprime

zephyrprime

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I guess there must be some sort of standard for notebook cd-roms but is there only one standard or are there several? Anyone know? I'm looking to get one on ebay and I'm not quite sure what to get.
 
It isn't really a standard per say for laptops only, but the ones used in laptops are called half-height CDROM's. They are also quite often used in rack mount servers, dense blade servers, micro pc's, or any computer that needs to save space. If you're using a laptop like a Dell Latitude, the CDROM sits inside a special enclosure so that it'll fit in the Latitude drive bays. Other laptops with non-integrated CDROM's might also take this approach, but I'm not certain. I'm only familiar with Dell. For the integrated CDROM's, there is no enclosure, just the bare drive.

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