In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disk drive that uses laser bright or electromagnetic waves near the light spectrum as part of the process of Cassette to CD Recorder inspection and scrawl data. It is a computer's peripheral device, that stores data on optical discs. Some drives can only read from discs, but commonly drives are both readers and recorders. Recorders are sometimes called burners or writers.

Optical disc drives are generally used for small-scale archival or data exchange, being slower and more materially plush per complement than the moulding manner disposed to mass-manufacture pressed discs. But they—along with flash memory—have displaced floppy disk drives and magnetic tape drives in most the scoop because of the low cost of optical media and the near-ubiquity of optical drives in computers and consumer entertainment hardware.