Everyone knows optical disc formats like CD and DVD ... At least that's what I hear, since I've never personally had my hands on one of these discs. Now we're getting into properly obscure ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

The data-transfer-rate of an optical disk is determined by the disk's rotational speed. Conventional CDs and DVDs, which use a 1.2-mm-thick polycarbonate substrate, could break from centrifugal ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges ...