Ideas Of The New Storage Media - By: Paul Wise

Blank media storage, it its most constrained, basic sense, is any medium in which data or information could be stored for further access. This may range anywhere from the printed page, to computers, to the human brain. For thousands of years, media CD blank was - while varied - limited by techniques that involved physically marking an object (the storage medium itself) with information that could later be read by the human eye and prepared by the brain.

These listed everything from scriptures hand written with paper and ink, to hieroglyphics carved into stone. Nevertheless, during the last several decades, improvements in technology have exposed a whole new avenue that has revolutionized the way humans record and keep information: electronic storage media.

Most people are accustomed to electronic storage media in the varieties of optical discs, including Video games, DVDs and Blu-ray dvds, these all can store music, video, or virtually any sort of data in any format that can be accessed by using a computer. Optical storage media operates by recording data onto the top of a disc, which stores information by encoding it in a binary file format in the form of "lands" along with "pits" - comparable to the crests and troughs of an ocean wave, respectively.

These practically microscopic grooves represent data as binary code where lands equal a 1 and pits a 0, which is then read by reflecting a laser light off the surface of the disc. The reflection of the laser is distorted by the arrangement of lands along with pits - 1s and 0s - and these distortions are then read and construed as unique statistics. While the discs themselves might be a relatively fragile storage media, the amount of data they can carry is tremendous. A regular CD can hold about 700mb of data, which if entirely dedicated to text data can store very similar to thousands upon thousands of written pages.

While written storage media containing this quantity of text data might weigh several pounds and be so physically cumbersome as to make transporting the data somewhat difficult, a CD weighing only a few grams can contain plenty of books worth of text. What's more is that while on paper, more data demands more storage space, consequently increasing the physical weight and size of the medium, optical data weighs basically nothing so that a CD crammed with data weighs a maximum of a CD with nothing on it.

And whilst making duplicate copies of this much written data would take dozens and dozens of man hours to manually copy using a pen and paper, a duplicate CD can be copied and recorded within a few minutes. The downside is that, while paper storage media might be heavy and cumbersome, it requires nothing more to interpret than the human eye. Optical storage media, on the other hand, demands other equipment to interpret the information for the user, which itself can be physically cumbersome and also vulnerable to damage.

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