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  2. Compact Disc and DVD copy protection - Wikipedia

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    For example, audio tracks on such media cannot be easily added to a personal music collection on a computer's hard disk or a portable (non-CD) music player. Also, many ordinary CD audio players (e.g. in car radios) had problems playing copy-protected media, mostly because they used hardware and firmware components also used in CD-ROM drives ...

  3. Zenbook - Wikipedia

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    Asus Zenbook is a line of notebook computers produced by Asus. The first Zenbooks were released in October 2011 as Ultrabooks , and the original range of products has since been expanded to models ranging from smaller and power efficient notebooks to high-end and larger laptops with additions like discrete graphics processing units .

  4. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    Active hard-drive protection, to protect laptop drives from external mechanical forces; S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) included in hard-drives, to provide early warning of predictable failure modes; Base isolation used under server racks in data centers

  5. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    CD-ROM discs are read using CD-ROM drives. A CD-ROM drive may be connected to the computer via an IDE , SCSI, SATA, FireWire, or USB interface or a proprietary interface, such as the Panasonic CD interface, LMSI/Philips, Sony and Mitsumi standards. Virtually all modern CD-ROM drives can also play audio CDs (as well as Video CDs and other data ...

  6. Comparison of disc image software - Wikipedia

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    Name Creates [a] Modifies? [b]Mounts? [c]Writes/ Burns? [d]Extracts? [e]Input format [f] Output format [g] OS License; 7-Zip: Yes: No: No: No: Yes: CramFS, DMG, FAT ...

  7. Caddy (hardware) - Wikipedia

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    In computer hardware, a caddy is a container used to protect an optical media disc from damage when handling. Its functionality is similar to that of the 3.5" floppy disk 's jacket. Its use dates back to at least the Capacitance Electronic Disc in 1981, and they were also used in initial versions of the Blu-ray Disc . [ 1 ]

  8. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    The head gap of an 80‑track high-density (1.2 MB in the MFM format) 5¼‑inch drive (a.k.a. Mini diskette, Mini disk, or Minifloppy) is smaller than that of a 40‑track double-density (360 KB if double-sided) drive but can also format, read and write 40‑track disks provided the controller supports double stepping or has a switch to do so ...

  9. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    Early sound cards could include a CD-ROM drive interface. Initially, such interfaces were proprietary to each CD-ROM manufacturer. A sound card could often have two or three different interfaces which are able to communicate with the CD-ROM drive. A method for using the parallel port to use with external drives was developed at some point. This ...