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Dell computer with no input
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:52:22 -0000 (UTC), Diesel wrote:
Char Jackson Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:18:56 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:37:37 -0500, Wolf K wrote: On 2017-12-01 09:29, Mayayana wrote: That's my hesitancy about USB sticks and hard disks. Magnetic storage. I don't really understand how it works, but it seems that it has to be less durable than grooves in plastic. And maybe it's susceptible to magnetic fields? I don't know. Cosmic rays? The Earth's magnetic field is strong enough to degrade magnetic storage over time. That's one reason VHS/Beta tapes become unusable. Mayayana mentioned grooves in plastic within the context of backing up data to DVD. Obviously, there are no grooves... ;-) No, but, there are small pits when the laser burns the disc. [g] For consumer writeable media, my understanding is that there's a dye layer sandwiched between the two outer plastic sheets. When you hit the dye layer with a laser, it darkens. That's later seen as a digital "0". Areas that weren't hit with the laser stay translucent, and are later seen as a digital "1". The reason a darkened area is considered a "0" is because there's a reflective layer just above the dye layer, so when the laser is in read mode and focuses on a specific area, if it can shine through the dye layer and get a reflection from the reflection layer, it's a "1". No reflection, because the dye has been darkened, is interpreted as a "0". The part about "pits" and "lands" refers to commercially pressed optical media. Consumer media doesn't have those characteristics. And, if air is ever allowed access to the material where your data is actually stored, sandwiched between those two layers of plastic that make the cd/dvd, bitrot will take hold and eat your data over time. In addition, the presence of that dye layer in writeable media is why direct sunlight kills them. Over time, sunlight darkens the dye layer, turning the 1's to 0's. -- Char Jackson |
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