Main drawbacks of cd-roms, Computer Engineering

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Q. Main drawbacks of CD-ROMs?

The main drawbacks of CD-ROMs are:

It is read only thus can't be updated
Access time is longer than that of magnetic disks.
Very slow as compared to hard disks that implies normal transfer rate is 300 Mbps for double speed drives and 600 Mbps for quadruple speed drives.

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