CD DVD Tower

A CD DVD tower is a computer hardware that can hold multiple CD or DVD drives. There are two main reasons why you would want to have such a configuration, and both of them involves connecting this piece of hardware on a network. One reason is because you would like workstations to gain simultaneous access to data or programs found on separate CD’s or DVD’s. The other is because you would want to simultaneously burn data on separate CD’s or DVD’s

In other words, such a unit functions as a server. Hence, a CD DVD Tower is frequently called a CD DVD Server.

Having a CD DVD Tower on a local area network is useful if the workstations in your network are not equipped with CD or DVD drives. This is usually done to prevent unauthorized installations on these computers.

If a system administrator wants to install new software applications on these workstations, he simply inserts the necessary installation optical disks into the drives on the tower and accesses them from each workstation.

Ditto on it functioning as a server for burning blank CD’s or DVD’s. Some of these drives have burning capabilities and you can burn data from your workstations to CD’s and DVD’s mounted on the CD DVD Tower.