A tray load means you push a button and a tray comes out for you to lay the disk on to push the button again to load. A slot would be like the old A drive floppy disk where you just push the disk in a slot. MCE slot-loading drive replaces original iMac drive, Mac Minute, 2004.06.14. 'MCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac (233, 266, and 333 MHz).' Slot-loading drive: 1. Slide the disc in. Hint: When replacing the disc in a tray-loading drive with another one, you can save 2 steps in the middle of the process by not closing.

A slot may refer to any of the following:

1. When referring to an SD or other memory cards, a slot is the hole the card is placed into. See our card reader term for further information.

2. A slot is an opening for a CD-ROM, DVD, and other disc drive that does not use a tray. See our slot load disc drive definition for further information.

3. A slot is a computer processor connection designed to make upgrading the processor easier, where the user would only have to slide a processor into a slot. The original slot, or Slot 1 (pictured below), was first released by the Intel Corporation in 1997 as a successor to the Socket 8. Later, AMD released another slot processor known as the Slot A in 1999. Both slots look similar but are not compatible. Later, Intel released the Slot 2, which was a bigger slot used with the later versions of the Pentium II processors. Today, slot processors are no longer found in new computers and are replaced by sockets.

Slot Loading Drive Vs. Trays

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4. A slot is another name for an expansion slot such as an ISA, PCI, AGP slot, or memory slots. See the motherboard definition for a visual example of all of these slots.

Bank, CPU terms, Memory terms, Motherboard terms