A disk drive that requires the media to be placed into a cartridge before insertion into the drive. The first CD-ROM and CD-R drives were caddy drives, but eventually evolved into tray drives.

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A type of drive that uses a flat tray to hold the media. The tray is ejected from the drive for media placement and retracted for playing (reading). CD and CD-ROM drives are common examples of tray ...