Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical Drives

It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio in the Marvel universe. This is all about our precious digital data. We need to store it somewhere secure and stable, in a way that lets us get hold of it and change it faster than you can blink. Forget Iron Man and Thor – we're talking about storage drives!

We've split the Anatomy of a Storage Drive in three parts, all published simultaneously to dissect hard disk drives, solid state storage, and optical drives. Links to the articles published in the series so far is below.

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