Friday, October 23, 2009

CD: COMPACT DISK




CD (COMPACT DISK)

CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory") is a compact disc that contains data accessible by a computer. While the compact disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the format was later adapted to hold any form of binary data. CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, whilst data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer. These are called Enhanced CDs. CDs’ comes in different. CD comes is many storage capacity. For e.g. 700 MB, 800 MB.
There are two types of CD in the market:-
1. Writable CD- You can write (store) your data only once time on this CD.
2. Re-writable CD- You can write (store) your data many times on this CD.

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