Why can't you "format" and rewrite content on a regular CD that has been used before Sup Forums?
Why can't you "format" and rewrite content on a regular CD that has been used before Sup Forums?
Luke Gonzalez
Levi Rogers
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Jacob Cox
Regular CD, question still remains.
James Collins
CD-R's cannot be overwritten. You're looking for CD-RW's.
Julian Hughes
CDs makes me hard
Matthew Rogers
I know that, I want to know WHY it is impossible to delete content on a regular CD and write new content on it.
John King
> (OP)
>CD-R's cannot be overwritten. You're looking for CD-RW's.
Why retard, answer
Owen Perry
it's a physical media that's been pressed with data and cannot be modified using lasers.
Jack Hernandez
There's a miniscule entity colloquially called "Mike's demon" that occupies the thinnest layer oid plastic outputting the laser's beam.
Lucas Hernandez
You can't.
Try reading the fucking CD-RW Wikipedia page, you dunce.
Jonathan Lopez
Nobody is forcing you to reply you fuckface.
Adam Johnson
Physics: the ultimate safeguard in computer security
Robert Myers
>buy stacks of dvd rw
>backup hentai collection
>safe from emp
youre welcome
Nathaniel Williams
If you're not removing content but want to burn more to it some times later, get CD+R.
You can write to it multiple times, but you can't remove content from it like you can on CD-RW
TL;DR
CD-R Single Session
CD+R Multiple Session
CD-RW ReWriteable Session
David Russell
I believe it has something to do with the chemistry of the CD itself.
Logan Ramirez
Because the dye isn't reusable. Once you write to it, it's done.
Lincoln Reyes
Why is it that you're too fucking stupid to Google "wut r difrunce cd-rw an cd-r" nigger?
Ethan Barnes
>too stupid/lazy to research shit, instead relies on asking strangers to explain it to him
Hunter Long
Wait, I was told this
>RW just "deletes" old data and lets you write new data on the remaining disc space. So, if you burn 200MB to it and rewrite it, you'll lose access to the 200MB and only be able to use the remaining 500.
Because lasers irreversibly damage the medium. You can't "unburn" something. It's physical storage. Imagine punching holes through paper as a way to store data, you can't "unpunch" them. I mean, you probably could seal them with special tools and a lot of effort. But, it's easier and a lot less expensive to just make a new CD.
Chase Cook
And CD-RW is only 650mb.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nathan Green
Because it makes autists like you have a fit of rage and shitpost instead of contributing possible knowledge to a sincere question and as we all know Wikipedia isn't always 100% accurate, so I'd like to hear opinions from people with all kinds of different knowledge or experience before I look for myself.
Brayden Moore
Camden Hughes
>before I look for myself
You're not fooling anyone, kiddo. We all know you're not going to Google anything after you get an answer you find satisfying.
Gavin Miller
Nope
CD-R: can not rewrite written parts, but can attach new data at the end and "delete" old by overwriting it once
CD-RW: can be erased completely multiple times
Lucas Rogers
The psychological evaluation of a stranger online means a lot to me, but would you mind getting back on topic? Take your crazy pills before you do though.
Cameron Taylor
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Joshua Ramirez
What's the topic, popular search engines?
Jordan Clark
The laser actually burns pits into the media. You can't undo that.
You could theoretically change the data on the disk though, by writing on an area that hasn't been written to yet. There are cd filesystems which do this, but they lose capacity over time because you can't actually delete anything, you can only mark it as deleted.
Jacob Sanders
Kayden James
OP is so poor that he things Sup Forums can tell him how to save $0.25 buying CD-Rs instead of CD-RWs.
Wyatt Bennett
But you can easily patch the paper cards
Jackson Nelson
Although it's a metaphor, read the rest. It's less expensive not to. You use more resources to patch them, or use less but lose integrity. It could cost you 10 times more to patch a single paper card than to make a new one.
James Nguyen
>recording CD-RW discs and erasing CD-rw in mid 2000's
this takes me back
Evan Butler
I still burn CD-RW discs for listening to music in car.
Been using the same disc for perhaps 5 years. It still just werks.
Henry Martinez
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