optical disk
813D optical data storage — is the term given to any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded and/or read with three dimensional resolution (as opposed to the two dimensional resolution afforded, for example, by CD). [ Three Dimensional Optical Data …
82Magneto-optical drive — A Magneto optical disc and the numerous rectangles on its surface. A magneto optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto optical disc. Both 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm… …
83Floppy disk — Floppy redirects here. For other uses, see Floppy (disambiguation). 8 inch, 5 1⁄4 inch, and 3 1⁄2 inch floppy disks …
84RAM disk — This article is about virtual drives emulated with software. For hardware storage devices using RAM, see solid state drive. For filesystems without drive emulation, see tmpfs. A RAM disk or RAM drive is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile …
85Fiber disk laser — A fiber disk laser is a fiber laser with transverse delivery of the pump light. They are characterized by the pump beam not being parallel to the active core of the optical fiber (as in a double clad fiber), but directed to the coil of the fiber… …
86Hard disk drive — Hard drive redirects here. For other uses, see Hard drive (disambiguation). Hard disk drive Mechanical interior of a modern hard disk drive Date invented 24 December 1954 [1] …
87Comparison of high definition optical disc formats — This article is about comparative HD optical disc formats. For a history of the Blu ray/HD DVD format war, see High definition optical disc format war. This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high definition formats,… …
88Direct-to-disk recording — This article is about digital storage systems. For audio recording, see Direct to disc recording. Not to be confused with Digital video recorder. Direct to disk recording (DDR) refers to methods by which analog signals and digital signals such as …
89List of optical disc authoring software — This is a list of optical disc authoring software.Open sourceMulti platform*cdrtools, a comprehensive command line based set of tools for creating and burning CDs and DVDs. *cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools by the Debian project. *cdrdao, open source… …
90Early IBM disk storage — The invention of magnetic disk storage, pioneered by IBM in the 1950s, was a critical component of the computer revolution. This article surveys the major IBM computer disk drives introduced in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. The basic… …
