What are the Different Types of Recordable Discs?
The compact disc, or CD, began its rise to popularity in the early 1980s and has since become the most popular medium for commercial audio recordings. In addition to being used for music, the compact disc eventually evolved so that it had the ability to be used for recording data as well. Today, there are several other types of recordable discs, and each has its own characteristics. The first of the types of recordable discs to become popular was the CD-R. In this type of disc, the data can only be stored once and will have a life span as short as eighteen months or as long as one hundred years. Eventually, CD-RWs gained popularity, since these are compact discs that have the ability to be erased and used to store data more than just once. Both CD-Rs and CD-RWs are widely used because they can hold much more data than a floppy disc, as well as being versatile and able to be used for a wide variety of data including music, pictures and video. Eventually the DVD, or “Digital Video Disc,”
