How much storage do YOU have?

[Grok]

Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.

You probably do not have 'optical'.  Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others.  The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations.  Optical comes in WORM and RW.  I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.

[dxoigmn]

Oh I was not looking at the picture the first time and looking at the optical. Yes that is most likely alchohol, daemon tools, phantom cd, or something else creativing virtual drives, I have 6 optical right now, only 2 are real.

You probably do not have 'optical'.  Optical generally refers to MO, "magnito optical" drives, which are produced by Sony, Plasmon, Hewlett Packard, and some others.  The sizes are typically 940MB, 1.2GB, 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB, and some variations.  Optical comes in WORM and RW.  I have worked with optical since 1994, and have migrated some 500 million pages of documents to optical drives in that time with software I have written or supported at my customers.

By optical he is refering to CD/DVD drives.

[Grok]

Yes, I know.  Hence my response.

[quasi-modo]

I have always heard of cd and dvd refered to as optical because of the fact that it is not magnetic like a hard disk, or floppy, or even a magnito optical, which as you know is like a hybrid between magnetic and optical storage (hence the name I guess). I have always heard magnito optical refered to as magnito optical....

[Hitmen]

I have an MO disk sitting on my desk somewhere. I don't know where it came from, how I got it, or when I got it, but it's there.