Direct read after write is a procedure that compares
data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted ...
recorded onto a
medium
Medium may refer to:
Science and technology
Aviation
*Medium bomber, a class of war plane
* Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
Communication
* Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
* Medium of ...
against the
source. A typical example would be
CD burning software
This is a list of optical disc authoring software.
Open source
Multi-platform
* cdrtools, a comprehensive command line-based set of tools for creating and burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays
* cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools by the Debian project
* cdr ...
which reads a
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both comput ...
once it has been burned onto, effectively ensuring that data written is the same as the data it was copied from.
External links
Smart Computing Dictionary entry
Storage software
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