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Overview of Optical Storage Devices

Optical storage refers to storing data on an optically readable medium. An optical disc drive uses laser light to read and write data from optical discs as they spin. The drive determines whether parts of the disc reflect laser light as pits or lands to interpret the data as 0s and 1s. Optical storage has benefits over magnetic storage like larger storage capacity and being less vulnerable to damage, though optical discs require more delicate handling and are prone to scratches that can lose data. Common applications of optical storage include multimedia encyclopedias, video games, training programs, and directories.

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Overview of Optical Storage Devices

Optical storage refers to storing data on an optically readable medium. An optical disc drive uses laser light to read and write data from optical discs as they spin. The drive determines whether parts of the disc reflect laser light as pits or lands to interpret the data as 0s and 1s. Optical storage has benefits over magnetic storage like larger storage capacity and being less vulnerable to damage, though optical discs require more delicate handling and are prone to scratches that can lose data. Common applications of optical storage include multimedia encyclopedias, video games, training programs, and directories.

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Optical storage

Awi, Grace, Yeongseo


What is optical storage?
Optical storage Optical disc drive (ODD)

 Optical storage is a term from  An optical disc drive that uses laser
engineering referring to the light or electromagnetic waves near
the light spectrum as part of the
storage of data on an optically
process of reading or writing data
readable medium. from optical discs.
How do they read data?
An optical disk is written with
data in a radial pattern,
beginning towards the center.
A laser beam is used by an
optical disk drive to read data
from the disk while it is spinning.
Based on how the light bounces
off the recording material, it can
tell the difference between the
pits and the lands.
The drive determines the 0 and 1
bits that represent the data using
the variations in reflectivity.
Benefits and drawbacks
Benefits Drawbacks
1. The storage capacity of the 1. It is not quite as easy or as fast
optical disk is more than a to copy an optical disk as it is to
magnetic disk. the software and hardware for
2. The optical disk is physical writing disks.
storage than magnetic disks 2. More complicated drive
and can not be damaged easily. mechanism.
3. The magnetic disk is sensitive 3. Need careful handling.
to be touched whereas optical 4. Label optical disk for easy
disk is not. identification.
4. This allows computer systems 5. The risk to lose data.
to be also used as the music 6. Prone to scratches, dust, sticky
systems. prints.
Applications
1. Multimedia
encyclopedias
2. video games
3. training programs
4. directories 
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