A CD-ROM (using a player) is an input device because it holds information that is readable. There are writable and re-writable CD's which allow you to add or remove information making it an output device (storage device) as well.
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No a disk drive is neither input or output device, it is an optical disk drive (for CD/DVD's) and a disk drive (for hard drives) would be a storage device.
Zip drives are both input-output and storage devices.
A disk drive is all three, depending on the situation. It is an input device when it provides stored data to an application. It is an output device when it receives data from an application. It is a storage system when it saves the data for future use.
A microphone and a computer mouse has only an output. That is an input device. A loudspeaker and a printer has only an input. That is an output device. A read-write CD/DVD, floppy disk, tape drive, and hard drive are all I/O devices because they can be used to store and retrieve data.
when any kind of information is received to you in any way weather hard disk or soft disk is known as output device .