Slot Loading Drive Vs. Tray
- That's why I said the design matters. In my Wadia for example, the loading tray has nothing to do with the performance of the transport. Once the CD is inside the player, its lifted off the tray from the bottom up. The tray isn't used for anything else. It has no effect on sound quality. My older Wadia 830 had a Pioneer stable platter transport.
- A slot may refer to any of the following: 1. When referring to an SD or other memory cards, a slot is the hole the card is placed into. See our card reader term for further information. A slot is an opening for a CD-ROM, DVD, and other disc drive that does not use a tray. See our slot load disc drive definition for further information.
Hi Ryan, As far as I know, the only difference is the slot/tray. I checked out the specs on the 116 (16x tray) and the 106S (16x slot) at NewEgg and their exactly the same spec wise, and it's only a $2 difference. This is because Apple uses a slot-loading drive on all Macs. My personal preference is Tray-Loading because my try-loading drive can read 80 mm discs and if there is a power outage, I can retrieve my disc without having any trouble and put it to use in my laptop.
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Slot Loading Drive Vs. Tray File
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A slot may refer to any of the following:
1. When referring to an SD or other memory cards, a slot is the hole the card is placed into. See our card reader term for further information.
2. A slot is an opening for a CD-ROM, DVD, and other disc drive that does not use a tray. See our slot load disc drive definition for further information.
3. A slot is a computer processor connection designed to make upgrading the processor easier, where the user would only have to slide a processor into a slot. The original slot, or Slot 1 (pictured below), was first released by the Intel Corporation in 1997 as a successor to the Socket 8. Later, AMD released another slot processor known as the Slot A in 1999. Both slots look similar but are not compatible. Later, Intel released the Slot 2, which was a bigger slot used with the later versions of the Pentium II processors. Today, slot processors are no longer found in new computers and are replaced by sockets.
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4. A slot is another name for an expansion slot such as an ISA, PCI, AGP slot, or memory slots. See the motherboard definition for a visual example of all of these slots.
Slot Loading Drive Vs. Tray Case
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