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  2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems. The first part of the formatting process that performs basic medium preparation is ...

  3. Universal Disk Format - Wikipedia

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    Various. Universal Disk Format (UDF) is an open, vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660. Due to its design, it is very well suited to incremental updates on both write-once and re-writable optical media.

  4. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    The logical format of an audio CD (officially Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) is described in a document produced in 1980 by the format's joint creators, Sony and Philips. [90] The document is known colloquially as the Red Book CD-DA after the color of its cover. The format is a two-channel 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate ...

  5. M-DISC - Wikipedia

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    M-DISC's design is intended to provide archival media longevity. [3] [4] M-Disc claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last up to 1000 years. [5]The M-DISC DVD looks like a standard disc, except it is slightly thicker [by how much?] and almost transparent with later DVD and BD-R M-Disks having standard and inkjet printable labels.

  6. Comparison of high-definition optical disc formats - Wikipedia

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    This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high-definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high-definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard. The two formats remained in a format war until February 19, 2008 ...

  7. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    Optical discs. An optical disc is a flat, usually [note 1] disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the aid of a beam of light. Optical discs can be reflective, where the light source and detector are on the same side of the disc, or transmissive, where light shines ...

  8. Optical disc image - Wikipedia

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    ISO 9660, UDF. An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. [3] ISO images contain the binary image of an optical media file system (usually ISO 9660 ...

  9. High-definition optical disc format war - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The high-definition optical disc format war was a market competition between the Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc standards for storing high-definition video and audio; it took place between 2006 and 2008 and was won by Blu-ray Disc. [1]