Recordable media are those products onto which content can be recorded to play back later. CD-Rs and DVD- Rs are some of the popular examples of recordable media. This article brings out the benefits of such products.
It’s difficult for a layperson to make sense of the increasingly diverse data storage options and to choose the right one in a crowded ecosystem. Hard drives, Solid state drives (SSD), CD’s, DVD’s, Blu-ray discs and now cloud computing have all presented themselves as the ultimate data storage solution at one time or the other.
In a world full of Clouds, offloading apps and media, as well as a fast-paced generation whose times move far too quickly to appreciate content for long, it may seem that recordable media (such as CD’s and DVD’s, USB drives, and hard drives) is no longer a necessity.
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Technology keeps improving with time and recordable media devices are no exception. In the last three decades we have seen the quality and the quantity of recordable media devices reach new and previously unimaginable heights. Starting with the floppy disk and moving on to flash drives has been an interesting journey for recordable media technology. Let’s go through this journey and see how the evolution of this technology has affected us.
Why would you choose to save or back up your data to a cloud instead of a Disc or Drive? Do you like the simplicity of accessing it everywhere? Do you think it’s cheaper? Yes, it’s convenient, but if you are uploading large volume, it certainly can be costly.
For years people have never understood the difference between a CD-R and a CDROM. The same goes for DVD-R or DVD-ROM. The short explanation is: In CD-R, the -R means recordable. This means you take an actual disc and put it into a recordable disc drive and you copy data to this disc in a “Write Once” method. In CDROM, the ROM means “Read Only Memory.” What does that mean? Check this out, it’s really pretty amazing.
Since 1989, Microboards Technology has been a fast-growing company that grew right beside the CD-R that originally launched in 1988 by Phillips and Sony. Offering a full line of automated disc publishers ranging from recordable discs to USB Flash Drive tower duplicators.
Launched in 2017, the most recent product in the Rimage line of disc publishing systems is the Catalyst. It is ideal for customers with medium-volume requirements and has the perfect hybrid of the rugged durability of Producer Series system, with the features of a Professional Series system.
