How storage devices works


Mac Optical Drives

Apple manufactures various parts ofsupports disks with capacities of 4.7GB
computers. Optical drives are one of theto 17GB and access rates of 600 KBps to
products, manufactured by apple. Optical1.3 MBps. The one specialty of DVD-ROMs
disks are a storage medium of data andis that these enable to read the data
optical drives are used to read andfrom CD disks also.
write these data on optical disks.DVD-RW: - DVD-RW stands for digital
The optical disc consists of aversatile disc writer. These drives have
ferromagnetic material sealed with aused to write the data on DVD disks as
plastic coating. Optical drives havewell as CD disks and also read the data
lasers that help to read and write thewhich has written on disks. These drives
data in computer understandable forms.enable to read data many times and also
During reading, a laser beam projectedenable to write data many times depend
on the disk and it reflects lights. Theupon the properties of disk that the
reflected light varies due to theproperties of disk shows write once or
magneto-optical Kerr effect.write many. To write the data on DVD
During writing on the disk, the lightdisks, these drive use laser. Laser burn
becomes stronger so it can burn the diskthe data on disks as computer readable
in a single spot. This allows anform.
electromagnet positioned on the oppositeBlu-Ray drives: - Blue ray drives are
side of the disc to change the localenable to read or write the data on
magnetic polarization and data writes ondisks that has the capacity of 50
disks.gigabytes, 25 gigabyte capacity of each
There are various types of opticalside. These disks are readable and
drives. These optical drives are:writable on both sides.
CD-ROM:-CD-ROM stands for compact diskDVDs are mainly used for video and not
read only memory used to read data fromfor software distributions. DVD drives
disks. These drives enable to read dataare still backwards compatible with CD
from audio cds, video cds and also mp3s.formats however. All optical drives are
These drives read the data which alreadyrated by speed that refers to the
written/encoded on the disks. The datamaximum speed the drive operates when
read on the disks are read by manycompared to the original CD or DVD
times.standards. There are many speeds of CD
CD-RW: - CD-RW stands for compact diskwriters, which vary through 8x to 52x. A
writer. These drives have used to write24x drive may run up to 24x when
the data on disks and also read the datawriting.
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DVD-ROM: - DVD-Rom are read only digitalon the various types of Mac parts
versatile disc drives that read the highavailable for purchase.
capacity of storage data disks. TheseAuthor: Harry Johnson
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encoded on the disks. The DVD-ROM



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