Optical Disc facts
While investigating facts about Optical Disc, I found out little known, but curios details like:
'Disc' refers to optical media (such as a CD) whereas 'Disk' refers to magnetic media (such as a hard drive)
Discs are optical media, while Disks are magnetic media
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about Optical Disc I managed to collect.
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"disc" is an optical storage method, and a "disk" is magnetic storage
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Because of digital storage costs, when you access a very old photo on Facebook, a robot must retrieve the Blu-ray disc on which it is stored and load it into an optical drive for loading into memory.
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When referring to data storage media the spelling 'disk' refers to magnetic storage while 'disc' refers to optical storage.
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That, in tech, a disc refers to optical media, and disk refers to magnetic media. A floppy disk, for example, uses magnets, but a DVD or Blu-Ray would be optical media and thus have discs.
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The Motion Picture Association of America sponsored two dogs able to detect optical discs by scent to combat copyright infringement of bootleg DVDs.
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How to Drill a 90 Degree Hole Using CD disc as an optical guide or how to make a simple jig for it.
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How to recover my pet ham slice that accidentally got stuck inside the optical disc drive. Kudos to the YouTuber!
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The Archival Disc format, which can store up to 1TB of data on a single optical disc!
