The magnetic tapes of yesterday are fast becoming obsolete. The bulky tapes are getting replaced by the new and more reliable digital storage medium. Let’s face it, this is the digital era. Digital technology has become inseparably intertwined with various aspects of our lives. These days, people buy fewer VHS cassettes than DVDs. Music CDs have virtually made audio cassettes a thing of the past. Floppies and ZIP drives have got replaced by CD-R and DVD-R drives. The age of the optical media is finally upon us.
Data storage has been given a new lease of life with the proliferation of this new digital storage technology. Gone are the days of pile-upon-pile of papers and bulky files cluttering the desk and filling up every available bit of office space. Modern day offices today are storing huge amounts of data in a deceptively small number of CDs and DVDs, and enjoying a whole new degree of convenience. However, while electronic and digital storage has reduced clutter, lowered costs and facilitated data storage substantially, it still remains susceptible to the occasional data loss in the form of scratched, warped or damaged disks. Sometimes, a CD can contain such critical data that the loss of which may cause an entire organization to collapse, especially if there is no backup of the lost data.
The foremost logical prerequisite of a rigid classification is that a mental item belong to no more than one category. Such either/or logic presupposes a digital mode of thinking, which, unlike its analog counterpart, does not tolerate any “gray” shadings among mental fields. “digital thinking” has a staccato character somewhat evocative of the on/off nature of the conventional light switch or the convulsive progression of time on digital clocks, in marked contradistinction to the smooth, legato style of the dimmer or the traditional analog clock.
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U. S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 3, University of Chicago Press (1991)
The best protection against such mishaps is to go for CD reproduction or CD duplication. CD reproduction is a significant process in this era of digital technology. It can be done on a large commercial level, such as the professional reproduction of commercially produced CDs, and also on a more personal level, such as taking backups of your original CDs. No matter how you look at it, CD reproduction is an essential process in today’s world. Moreover, since the last few years, the cost of optical storage media such as CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs has become very affordable.
Add this cost-effectiveness with their improved processing power - robust recorders have ensured that CD reproduction gets to become more economical as well as quick. Rightly speaking if digital technology has made it possible for all of us to zoom ahead to the future with faster speed and vigour, CD an outcome of the same technology helps us to store our choicest past intact.
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