Optical storage

Awi, Grace, Yeongseo

What is optical storage?
Optical storage
 Optical storage is a term from
engineering referring to the
storage of data on an optically
readable medium.
Optical disc drive (ODD)
 An optical disc drive that uses laser
light or electromagnetic waves near
the light spectrum as part of the
process of reading or writing data
from optical discs.
How do they read data?
An optical disk is written with
data in a radial pattern,
beginning towards the center.
A laser beam is used by an
optical disk drive to read data
from the disk while it is spinning.
Based on how the light bounces
off the recording material, it can
tell the difference between the
pits and the lands.
The drive determines the 0 and 1
bits that represent the data using
the variations in reflectivity.
Benefits and drawbacks
Benefits Drawbacks
1. The storage capacity of the 1. It is not quite as easy or as fast
optical disk is more than a to copy an optical disk as it is to
magnetic disk. the software and hardware for
2. The optical disk is physical writing disks.
storage than magnetic disks 2. More complicated drive
and can not be damaged easily. mechanism.
3. The magnetic disk is sensitive 3. Need careful handling.
to be touched whereas optical 4. Label optical disk for easy
disk is not. identification.
4. This allows computer systems 5. The risk to lose data.
to be also used as the music 6. Prone to scratches, dust, sticky
systems. prints.
Applications
1. Multimedia
encyclopedias
2. video games
3. training programs
4. directories 
Thank you