CD Burners: an Introduction

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CD burners or CD recorders are commonly used storage devices that have become standard in most new computer packages. They appeared in the market in the mid-1980s and used as a standard in providing the safest source of data storage. Unfortunately, many people do not exactly know how these CD/DVD burners work. Let us discuss the working of CD/DVD burners:

How it works?

There ar e two types of writable CDs available in the market. CD-R, compact discs that can be used to write only once and another CD-RW, discs that can be used to write multiple times. Usually, rewritable discs can be rewritten 1000 times. Usually, an organic dye is used to encode data from a CD-RW. To read the data in the future, a laser beam is applied that changes the chemical properties of the dye and modifies its reflective properties, making it suitable to read the stored data. In addition, a crystalline metal alloy used in the CD-RW that helps in transforming the stored data to make it useful for future use as well. However, CD-R is used for saving data permanently.

Why CD burners are so popular?

Several factors are responsible for ensuring the success of CD burners. CD burners are potential to hold higher amount of data. A normal 3.5 inch floppy disc can keep 1.44 megabytes of data. However, a CD burner ensures you to save a large amount of data conveniently.

CDs are the best medium to store audio data. Now, by using CD burners, music lovers can create their own collection of songs. With the popularity of MP3, music buffs are enjoying usability of CD to new levels.

Using CD burners is quite inexpensive now. At the time of its introduction, CD burners used to cost more than thousand of dollars. However, now, you can get the same quality of a CD in as minimal as $10.