Jukeboxes White Papers
The Benefits of Writable Optical Storage
Overview
The use of optical storage continues to grow at an incredible pace, spurred on by the flexibility and affordability the technology offers. The word optical in the computer industry refers to any storage method which uses a laser to store and retrieve data from media. This term includes such devices as CD-ROM, rewritable optical, WORM, CD-R, and optical jukeboxes or autochangers.
Most of us are familiar with CD-ROM, but other terms such as rewritable optical, WORM, and CD-R may be foreign. Rewritable optical devices use media that allows data to be written repeatedly, while WORM (standing for Write-Once-Read-Many) technology writes data permanently to disk. CD-R, (short for Compact Disc Recordable), allows up to 650MB of data to be written permanently to a compact disc and read on low-cost CD-ROM drives. hese devices are currently sold as single or standalone items, or as jukeboxes. Jukeboxes are storage units with built in robotics to automate access to hundreds of pieces of media and numerous optical drives.
| Publisher | OSTA (Optical Storage Technology Association) | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 108 |
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