CD media storage, it its most restricted, primary sense, is any medium in which data or information could be stored for further access. This may range between the printed page, to computers, to the human brain. For thousands of years, storage media was - while assorted - limited to techniques that involved physically marking an object (the storage medium itself) with information that could eventually be read by the human eye and prepared from the brain.
These listed everything from scriptures hand written with paper and ink, to hieroglyphics carved into stone. Nonetheless, during the last several decades, advances in technology have opened up a whole new avenue that has revolutionized the way humans record and retain information: electronic storage media.
Many people are accustomed to electronic storage media in the forms of optical discs, including Compact disks, Movies and Blu-ray cds, these all can store music, video, or essentially any type of data in any format that can be accessed with a computer. Optical storage media operates by recording data onto the top of a disc, which stores information by encoding it in a binary format in the form of "lands" as well as "pits" - similar to the crests and troughs of an ocean wave, respectively.
These practically microscopic grooves symbolize data as binary code where lands equal a 1 and pits a 0, which is then read by reflecting a laserlight off the surface of the disc. The reflection of the laser is distorted by the layout of lands and pits - 1s and 0s - and these distortions are then read and construed as unique information. As the discs on their own may be a relatively fragile storage media, the amount of data they can store is enormous. A regular CD can hold about 700mb of data, which if entirely committed to text data can store the same as thousands upon thousands of written pages.
While written storage media containing this quantity of text data may possibly weigh several pounds and be so physically cumbersome as to make transporting the data somewhat difficult, a CD weighing only a few grams may contain plenty of books worth of text. What's more is that while on paper, more data demands more storage space, therefore increasing the physical weight and size of the medium, optical data weighs literally nothing so that a CD stuffed with data weighs no more than a CD with nothing on it.
And whilst creating duplicate copies of this much written data would likely take loads of man hours to manually replicate having a pen and paper, a duplicate CD can be copied and recorded within a couple of minutes. The downside is that, while paper storage media might be heavy and cumbersome, it requires nothing more to interpret than the human eye. Optical storage media, in contrast, calls for other equipment to interpret the info for the user, which itself can be physically cumbersome as well as vulnerable to damage.
These listed everything from scriptures hand written with paper and ink, to hieroglyphics carved into stone. Nonetheless, during the last several decades, advances in technology have opened up a whole new avenue that has revolutionized the way humans record and retain information: electronic storage media.
Many people are accustomed to electronic storage media in the forms of optical discs, including Compact disks, Movies and Blu-ray cds, these all can store music, video, or essentially any type of data in any format that can be accessed with a computer. Optical storage media operates by recording data onto the top of a disc, which stores information by encoding it in a binary format in the form of "lands" as well as "pits" - similar to the crests and troughs of an ocean wave, respectively.
These practically microscopic grooves symbolize data as binary code where lands equal a 1 and pits a 0, which is then read by reflecting a laserlight off the surface of the disc. The reflection of the laser is distorted by the layout of lands and pits - 1s and 0s - and these distortions are then read and construed as unique information. As the discs on their own may be a relatively fragile storage media, the amount of data they can store is enormous. A regular CD can hold about 700mb of data, which if entirely committed to text data can store the same as thousands upon thousands of written pages.
While written storage media containing this quantity of text data may possibly weigh several pounds and be so physically cumbersome as to make transporting the data somewhat difficult, a CD weighing only a few grams may contain plenty of books worth of text. What's more is that while on paper, more data demands more storage space, therefore increasing the physical weight and size of the medium, optical data weighs literally nothing so that a CD stuffed with data weighs no more than a CD with nothing on it.
And whilst creating duplicate copies of this much written data would likely take loads of man hours to manually replicate having a pen and paper, a duplicate CD can be copied and recorded within a couple of minutes. The downside is that, while paper storage media might be heavy and cumbersome, it requires nothing more to interpret than the human eye. Optical storage media, in contrast, calls for other equipment to interpret the info for the user, which itself can be physically cumbersome as well as vulnerable to damage.
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