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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 10-52 A CD-R disc, with its capacity clearly labeled

CD-R discs function similarly to regular CD-ROMs, although the

chemicals used to make them produce a brightly colored recording side on

almost all CD-R discs. CD-ROM discs, in contrast, have a silver data side.

CD-R technology records data by using organic dyes embedded into the disc.

CD-R burners have a second burn laser, roughly ten times as powerful as the

read laser, that heats the organic dye. This causes a change in the reflectivity

of the surface, creating the functional equivalent of a CD-ROM’s pits.

CD-R drives have two speeds that matter: the record speed and the read

speed, both expressed as multiples of the 150-KBps speed of the original CD-

ROM drives. The record speed, which is listed first, is always equal to or

slower than the read speed. For example, a CD-R drive with a specification of

8×24× would burn at 8× and read at 24×.

CD-RW Just as CD-R drives could both burn CD-R discs and read CD-

ROMs, a newer type of drive called CD-rewritable (CD-RW) took over the

burning market from CD-R drives. Although this drive has its own type of

CD-RW discs, it also can burn to CD-R discs, which are much cheaper.

CD-RW technology enables you not only to burn a disc, but to burn over

existing data on a CD-RW disc. The CD-RW format essentially takes CD-

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