Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), or DVD-Video as it is known, is an optical recording medium capable of recording videos over an extended period. Its media composition, geometry and data recording and reading methods are basically the same as those o

CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) is a rewritable medium which uses a metal phase transitioning material in the recording layer (specified in Orange Book Part III) and records information by converting the crystalline state of the material to a non-crystalline (

CD-Recordable (CD-R) (specified in Orange Book Part II) is a recordable medium that uses organic dyes such as azo, cyanine and phthalocyanine on the recording layer and records information by degradation and dissipation of the dye with heat from a la

DVD-R (DVD-Recordable) is a recordable medium with an organic dye in its recording layer which does not allow data to be rewritten or deleted once it is written on the disc. DVD-RW (DVD-Rewritable), on the other hand, is a rewritable medium with a me

At the dawn of the history of the computer, paper punch tape and cards were used as recording media but today, methods such as magnetic, optical, optical magnetic and semiconductor recording are used in the materials and devices for recording informa

A floppy disk is a removable, rewritable magnetic recording medium comprising a disk-shaped polymer sheet coated with magnetic material on the front and back, encased in a jacket. It is sometimes also referred to as a flexible disk. In the 1970s,

DVD-RAM (DVD-Random Access Memory) is a rewritable medium which uses a metal phase transitioning material in the recording layer, has hardware defect management and identical specifications to magnetic recording media. Consequently, data can be delet

DVD+R (DVD Recordable) is a recordable medium with an organic dye in its recording layer which does not allow data to be rewritten or deleted once it is written on the disc. DVD+RW (DVD Rewritable), on the other hand, is a rewritable medium with a me

Generally, the term CD refers to a CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio), but it is also a general term for an optical disc with a diameter of either 80mm or 120mm and a capacity of up to 700MB. CD-ROM, Photo CD, CD-R, and CD-RW are some of the logos an

Among the different types of semiconductor memory recordable media, flash memory is the general name for a group of products including CompactFlash, SD memory cards (including mini and micro), USB data storage drives, which are made up of EEPROM (Ele

A Magneto-Optical Disc (MO) is a removable, rewritable storage medium, which comes in both 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch sizes. The 3.5-inch size is the more commonly used size with personal computers. The discs come in six different sizes of storage capaci