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WRITE-ONCE DISK [2 records]

Record 1 2018-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
CONT

Optical disks can be classified as read-only disk, write-once disk, rewriteable disk, and read-write disk according to the modification ability of the recording material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

An optical disk which is rewritable by nature, but on which writing to or erasing sectors that once has been written is prohibited by software.

DEF

An optical disk in which the data in specified areas can be written only once and read multiple times by an optical beam.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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