Saturday, July 31, 2010

Capacity

CD-ROM capacities are normally expressed with binary prefixes, subtracting the space used for error correction data. A standard 120 mm, 700 MB CD-ROM can actually hold about 737 MB (703 MiB) of data with error correction (or 847 MB total). In comparison, a single-layer DVD-ROMcan hold 4.7 GB of error-protected data, more than 6 CD-ROMs.

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