6. CD ROM/DVD ROM Advantages: They are self-paced. In CD ROM and DVD Rom can be stored any data until its capacity limit. They a re highly interactive. Disadvantages: For updates it requires new CD. DVD ROM format’s biggest disadvantage it that it can’t be used more than once. Ara Papikyan
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8. DVDs – recording of film movies and television programs.Advantages: Long life — without physical damage, data is retained for an estimated 30 years. For this reason, it has uses in archival storage. Disadvantages: DVD-RAM media have always been more expensive than other types of DVD. Less compatibility than DVD+RW and DVD-RW, despite predating both formats . Ara Papikyan
9. CD RW/DVD RW Applications which require the updating of information and ability to record over old data. Not suitable for music recording but is very useful for keeping generations of files. DVDs have between five and ten times the capacity of CDs. Advantages: DVD-RW disc is a rewritable optical disc with equal storage capacity to a DVD-R, typically 4.7 GB. Disadvantage: Not good for recording music files Old optical drivers can not read Ara Papikyan
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11. Used in video recorders, camcorders and computer memory.Advantage: Very fast access of small files on the disc. Disc defect management designed to safeguard data. Disadvantage: Less compatibility than DVD+RW and DVD-RW, despite predating both formats . Ara Papikyan
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19. Blu-ray Used in video recorders and computer memory as well as games consoles. Largest storage capacity of optical media. Advantages: Ability to store either 25GB or compress the data to fit up to 50GB of Data. The only optical disc device that holds high-definition quality audio and video Disadvantages: Blu-ray discs and players are still very expensive Ara Papikyan