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Optical Storage Media

Optical storage uses laser light to record data onto spinning discs in a readable pattern. An optical disc drive in a computer can read formats like CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. The storage capacity of optical discs ranges from 700 MB for a single CD to 50 GB for a dual-layer Blu-ray disc.

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Optical Storage Media

Optical storage uses laser light to record data onto spinning discs in a readable pattern. An optical disc drive in a computer can read formats like CD-ROMs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. The storage capacity of optical discs ranges from 700 MB for a single CD to 50 GB for a dual-layer Blu-ray disc.

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Optical Storage Media

Optical storage is the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by
making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser
light precisely focused on a spinning optical disc. An older example of optical storage that does
not require the use of computers, is microform. There are other means of optically storing data
and new methods are in development. An optical disc drive is a device in a computer that can
read CD-ROMs or other optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Optical storage differs
from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism, such
as floppy disks and hard disks, or semiconductors, such as flash memory and RAM.

Optical storage can range from a single drive reading a single CD-ROM to multiple drives
reading multiple discs such as an optical jukebox. Single CDs (compact discs) can hold around
700 MB (megabytes) and optical jukeboxes can hold much more. Single-layer DVDs can hold
4.7 GB, while dual-layered can hold 8.5 GB. This can be doubled to 9.4 GB and 17 GB by
making the DVDs double sided, with readable surfaces on both sides of the disc. HD DVDs were
able to store 15 GB with a single-layer and 30 GB with a dual-layer. Blu-ray discs, which won
the HDTV optical format war by defeating HD DVDs, can hold 25 GB for single-layer and 50
GB for dual-layer.

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