Optical disc drive

Quality:

Optical disc drive - disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves to read or write data. Article “Optical disc drive” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Optical disc drive”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1017 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2161 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #247 in October 2017
• Global: #5174 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3789 in September 2013
• Global: #15510 in September 2014

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		67.3016
2	Estonian (et) Optilise ketta ajam		67.2497
3	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		46.8085
4	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		46.3143
5	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		38.6848
6	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		34.3604
7	Armenian (hy) Օպտիկական սկավառակակիր		30.455
8	Indonesian (id) Penggerak cakram optik		29.0634
9	Slovak (sk) Optická mechanika		23.3202
10	Catalan (ca) Unitat de disc òptic		22.5568

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		4 447 240
2	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		1 848 716
3	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		756 860
4	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		749 276
5	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		621 569
6	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		409 948
7	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		184 161
8	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		169 120
9	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично дисково устройство		129 025
10	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		122 619

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		3 432
2	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		708
3	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		341
4	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		336
5	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		208
6	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		190
7	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		158
8	Persian (fa) درایو نوری		134
9	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		95
10	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		64

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		405
2	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		72
3	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		56
4	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		50
5	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		46
6	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		43
7	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		40
8	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		39
9	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		25
10	Hebrew (he) כונן תקליטורים אופטי		25

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		1
2	Korean (ko) 광학 디스크 드라이브		1
3	Arabic (ar) محرك الأقراص الضوئية		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично дисково устройство		0
5	Catalan (ca) Unitat de disc òptic		0
6	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		0
7	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		0
8	Greek (el) Οδηγός οπτικού δίσκου		0
9	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		0
10	Estonian (et) Optilise ketta ajam		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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