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noun
- 1. a small plastic disc on which music or other digital information is stored in the form of a pattern of metal-coated pits from which it can be read using laser light reflected off the disc: "all the recordings have been reissued on compact disc"
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1 day ago · The sound is clean, with no pops or crackles. Of course, CD is a time-locked, 1980s technology. With a sampling rate of 44.1kHz and 16-bit quantisation, it was the best technical solution for the space available on a compact disc at the time: 16-bit 44.1 kHz gave us 74 minutes of music on a single disc.
5 days ago · Short for Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc, a DVD or DVD-ROM is a disc that can store a significant amount more data than a standard compact disc. DVDs are widely used for storing and viewing movies and other data.
2 days ago · Reed–Solomon coding is a key component of the compact disc. It was the first use of strong error correction coding in a mass-produced consumer product, and DAT and DVD use similar schemes.
2 days ago · A solid-state drive (SSD) is a type of solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuits to store data persistently. It is sometimes called semiconductor storage device, solid-state device, and solid-state disk. [ 1 ][ 2 ] SSDs rely on non-volatile memory, typically NAND flash, to store data in memory cells.
5 days ago · We recommend when installing a CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable) or CD-RW (Compact Disc Re-Writable) drive that the drive be set up as the primary drive on the second IDE/EIDE interface. Having the drive as the primary helps prevent buffer underruns when creating a CD.
2 days ago · For example, one 640 MB compact disc (CD) holds approximately one hour of uncompressed high fidelity music, less than 2 hours of music compressed losslessly, or 7 hours of music compressed in the MP3 format at a medium bit rate.
