What is CD burning and how is it used?
Features and Capacity: • CD-Burning is a process which records information from your computer onto a disc. That disc can then be used on another machine to retrieve that information. • Burning CDs is primarily used for backing up large amounts of data that a 1.44 mb Floppy disk cannot. Currently, CD-R’s can hold approximately 486 floppy discs worth of data. As technology progresses, the storage requirements for data has exponentially increased. Older forms of data storage such as floppy diskettes and tape drives are rather cumbersome as the amount of time required to access certain data on the drive can take upwards to 2 minutes. Compact Discs do not have such a large “seek” time as the laser can read any particular sector on the CD at any given time.
