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What is Storage media used by optical disc drives?
CD and DVD disks are used by optical disc drives.
Are CD drives or DVD drives more common?
CD drivers and DVD drivers are both equally common. CD drives is a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system. A DVD drive is an optical disc storage media format.
What are optical storage devices are most commonly known as?
An optical storage device is an electro-mechanical unit that can save and retrieve (write and read) information on a special disc medium using a laser light. Optical drives are designed to work with several types of media: CDs ("compact disc"), DVDs (digital versatile disc" or "digital video disc") and Blu-ray discs.
What are optical storage devices are most known as?
An optical storage device is an electro-mechanical unit that can save and retrieve (write and read) information on a special disc medium using a laser light. Optical drives are designed to work with several types of media: CDs ("compact disc"), DVDs (digital versatile disc" or "digital video disc") and Blu-ray discs.
What is the latest write-once optical storage media?
Blu Ray disc
How is the Optical disc similar to the compact disc?
A compact disc is a type of optical disc. "Optical disc" is an umbrella term for any type of storage media which uses optical technology (as opposed to magnetic) for data storage. This includes but is not limited to DVDs, CDs, H-DVD, blu-ray, laser discs CDRW's, and DVDRW's
Disc is a type of storage media that consists of a flat round portable disc made of metal plastic and lacquer that is written and read by a laser?
Optical Disk
What is the correct spelling for computer disc drive?
"Disc" refers to optical media, such as CDs or DVDs. "Disk" refers to magnetic media, such as hard drives. So the answer depends on which drive you are referring to; most have both an "optical disc drive", and a "hard disk drive".
CDs and DVDs are durable storage media because their storage technology essentially etches data onto the disc surface?
optical storage technology
Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?
Single layer, single sided Blue-ray disc
What is used to store information on a diskette?
There are several mass storage mediums that may be described as a disk (or disc), including floppy-disk, hard-disk and optical disc (CD-ROM, DVD, BluRay). Solid-state drives such as flash drives are not disks; there are no moving parts.
What is a type of storage media that consits of flat round portable disc made of metal plastic and lacquer that is written and read by a laser?
Optical disc
