Working with the notebook
SPAN (JBOD)
With SPAN disk array, the data capacity is equivalent to the sum of all hard disks
used. These hard disks can be of different sizes. The operating system treats the
hard disk drives as if they were one hard drive.
"Spanning" means that the data is stored on a hard disk drive until this is full. As soon as
the hard drive is full, the data continues to be stored on the next hard disk drive in the
disk array. If one hard drive fails, the entire disk array is affected. SPAN (JBOD) actually
does not belong to RAID and does not support any error tolerance.
CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc
CD/DVD data storage media (certain devices only)
Datastoragemedia
CD/DVD
CD/DVD drives can either only read or both read and write different CDs or DVDs. The
meaning of the respective CD and DVD types is described in the following:
CD-ROM
CD-ROM
Abbreviation for Compact Disc - Read Only Memory. A CD-ROM is an optical data storage
medium that can contain a maximum of 700 Mbytes. These data cannot be changed.
CD-R
CD-R
Abbreviation for Compact Disc Recordable. A CD-R is an optical data storage medium
that can only be written once with a maximum of 700 Mbytes of data. Then these data
cannot be changed, but can be read as often as desired.
CD-RW
CD-RW
Abbreviation for Compact Disc ReWriteable. A CD-RW is an optical data storage medium
that can be written with a maximum of 700 MByte of data a virtually unlimited number
of times. This means the data can be deleted and changed.
DVD (DVD-ROM and DVD video)
DVDvideo
DVD-ROM
DVD
Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc. A DVD is an optical data storage
medium that can contain a maximum of 17 GBytes of data. These data cannot be changed.
DVD+R/DVD-R
DVD+R
DVD-R
Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc Recordable or Digital Video Disc Recordable. A DVD+R or
a DVD-R is an optical data storage medium that can only be written once with a maximum of
4.7 Gbytes of data. Then these data cannot be changed, but can be read as often as desired.
DVD+R and DVD-R are different standards. DVD+Rs and DVD-Rs can only
be written by drives which support the respective standard.
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