Optical disc drive

Optical disc drive - disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves to read or write data. Article “Optical disc drive” in English Wikipedia has 66.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 90 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 16.69 points.

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Optical disc drive” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Optical disc drive”, its content was written by 397 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 999 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 431 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2275 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1812 in October 2003
• Global: #5172 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16465 in September 2014
• Global: #15492 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, 2025 (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	Estonian (et) Optilise ketta ajam		68.7633
2	English (en) Optical disc drive		66.7667
3	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		47.688
4	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		46.2937
5	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		35.7223
6	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		34.3062
7	Armenian (hy) Օպտիկական սկավառակակիր		30.4621
8	Indonesian (id) Penggerak cakram optik		30.2977
9	Slovak (sk) Optická mechanika		24.1579
10	Catalan (ca) Unitat de disc òptic		22.4623

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Optical disc drive" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		4 358 964
2	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		1 758 492
3	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		741 430
4	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		703 398
5	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		617 437
6	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		406 429
7	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		178 626
8	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		166 967
9	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично дисково устройство		126 265
10	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		120 034

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Optical disc drive" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		6 091
2	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		845
3	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		843
4	Simple English (simple) Optical disc drive		648
5	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично дисково устройство		569
6	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		557
7	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		458
8	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		228
9	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		219
10	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		196

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

Language versions of the article "Optical disc drive" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		397
2	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		72
3	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		55
4	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		48
5	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		46
6	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		43
7	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		38
8	Turkish (tr) Optik disk sürücüsü		38
9	Hebrew (he) כונן תקליטורים אופטי		25
10	Catalan (ca) Unitat de disc òptic		24

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

Language versions of the article "Optical disc drive" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		4
2	German (de) Optisches Laufwerk		1
3	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		1
4	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		1
5	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		1
6	Arabic (ar) محرك الأقراص الضوئية		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Оптично дисково устройство		0
8	Catalan (ca) Unitat de disc òptic		0
9	Czech (cs) Optická mechanika		0
10	Greek (el) Οδηγός οπτικού δίσκου		0

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

Language versions of the article "Optical disc drive" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Optical disc drive		431
2	Chinese (zh) 光盘驱动器		235
3	Japanese (ja) 光学ドライブ		200
4	Russian (ru) Привод оптических дисков		145
5	Persian (fa) درایو نوری		133
6	Ukrainian (uk) Оптичний привод		107
7	Polish (pl) Napęd optyczny		104
8	Arabic (ar) محرك الأقراص الضوئية		94
9	Spanish (es) Unidad de disco óptico		86
10	Greek (el) Οδηγός οπτικού δίσκου		84

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic محرك الأقراص الضوئية
bg	Bulgarian Оптично дисково устройство
ca	Catalan Unitat de disc òptic
cs	Czech Optická mechanika
de	German Optisches Laufwerk
el	Greek Οδηγός οπτικού δίσκου
en	English Optical disc drive
es	Spanish Unidad de disco óptico
et	Estonian Optilise ketta ajam
fa	Persian درایو نوری
fi	Finnish Optinen asema
he	Hebrew כונן תקליטורים אופטי
hy	Armenian Օպտիկական սկավառակակիր
id	Indonesian Penggerak cakram optik
ja	Japanese 光学ドライブ
ko	Korean 광학 디스크 드라이브
lt	Lithuanian Optinis įrenginys
pl	Polish Napęd optyczny
ru	Russian Привод оптических дисков
sh	Serbo-Croatian CD uređaj
simple	Simple English Optical disc drive
sk	Slovak Optická mechanika
tr	Turkish Optik disk sürücüsü
uk	Ukrainian Оптичний привод
vi	Vietnamese Ổ đĩa quang
zh	Chinese 光盘驱动器

Best Rank

English: #16465 09.2014

Global: #15492 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #1812 10.2003

Global: #5172 07.2003

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