Optical Disc facts

While investigating facts about Optical Disc, I found out little known, but curios details like:

'Disc' refers to optical media (such as a CD) whereas 'Disk' refers to magnetic media (such as a hard drive)

Discs are optical media, while Disks are magnetic media

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Optical Disc I managed to collect.

1. "disc" is an optical storage method, and a "disk" is magnetic storage

2. Because of digital storage costs, when you access a very old photo on Facebook, a robot must retrieve the Blu-ray disc on which it is stored and load it into an optical drive for loading into memory.

3. When referring to data storage media the spelling 'disk' refers to magnetic storage while 'disc' refers to optical storage.

4. That, in tech, a disc refers to optical media, and disk refers to magnetic media. A floppy disk, for example, uses magnets, but a DVD or Blu-Ray would be optical media and thus have discs.

5. Here I want so share you comparisson between PS5 specs vs Xbox Series X.
   
   

   
   
   

   	PlayStation 5	Xbox Series X
   Price	TBD	TBD
   Release Date	Holiday 2020	Holiday 2020
   Key Exclusives	Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon II: Forbidden West, Gran Turismo 7	Halo Infinite, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
   Backwards Compatibility	Almost all PS4 games, including optimized PS4 Pro titles	All Xbox One games / Select Xbox 360 and original Xbox games
   CPU	8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2	8-core, 3.8 GHz AMD Zen 2
   GPU	10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2	12.0 teraflop AMD RDNA 2
   RAM	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
   Storage	825 GB custom SSD	1 TB custom NVMe SSD
   Resolution	Up to 8K	Up to 8K
   Frame Rate	Up to 120 fps	Up to 120 fps
   Optical Disc Drive	4K UHD Blu-ray	4K UHD Blu-ray

6. The Motion Picture Association of America sponsored two dogs able to detect optical discs by scent to combat copyright infringement of bootleg DVDs.

7. How to Drill a 90 Degree Hole Using CD disc as an optical guide or how to make a simple jig for it.

8. How to recover my pet ham slice that accidentally got stuck inside the optical disc drive. Kudos to the YouTuber!

9. The Archival Disc format, which can store up to 1TB of data on a single optical disc!