CD-R
Sign in to saveCD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can only be written once and read arbitrarily many times.
Key facts
- Storage medium.name
- Compact disc-recordable
- Storage medium.logo
- CD-R logo.svgclass=skin-invert
- Storage medium.image
- Compact Disc.png
- Storage medium.type
- Optical disc
- Storage medium.encoding
- Various
- Storage medium.capacity
- Typically up to 700 MB (up to 80 minutes audio)
- Storage medium.read
- 600-780 nm wavelength (infrared and red edge) semiconductor laser, 1200 Kbit/s (1×) to 100 Mb/s (56x)
- Storage medium.write
- 780 nm wavelength (infrared and red edge) semiconductor laser
- Storage medium.standard
- Rainbow Books
- Storage medium.owner
- Philips, Sony
- Storage medium.use
- Audio and data storage
- Storage medium.extended from
- Recordable LaserDiscCD-ROM
- Storage medium.extended to
- CD-RWDVD-R
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16 sectionsContents
- History
- Music CD-Rs
- U1 bit values
- Physical characteristics
- Dyes
- Speed
- Writing methods
- Formatting CD-R into CD-ROM
- Lifespan
- Labeling
- Disposal
- Data confidentiality
- Recycling
- See also
- References
- External links
CD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can only be written once and read arbitrarily many times.
CD-R discs (CD-Rs) are readable by most CD readers manufactured prior to the introduction of CD-R, unlike CD-RW discs.