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* DVD+R / DVD+RW appear
 
* DVD+R / DVD+RW appear
 
* DVD drives become commodity items with prices well below $100
 
* DVD drives become commodity items with prices well below $100
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* Floppy drives begin to become rare, leaving optical drives as the primary boot media for installing operating systems
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* Floppy drives begin to become unnecessary, leaving optical drives as the primary boot media for installing operating systems
  
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'''2005 - 2015: Commodity Optical Drives'''
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'''2005 - 2009: Commodity Optical Drives'''
 
* Computers: Socket >= 775 / Socket >= AM2
 
* Computers: Socket >= 775 / Socket >= AM2
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* Early Sata optical drives appear that are Pata drives with a Sata bridge on the controller
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* Early Sata optical drives appear that use Pata chipsets with a Sata bridge on the controller, not ideal performance
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* True Sata Super Multi 20x DVD drives replace PATA drives for new builds
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* True Sata Super Multi DVD drives with 20x speeds soon replace PATA drives and Bridged drives for new builds
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* Most DVD drives support all common +/- formats
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* Most DVD writers support all common +/- formats
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* BD-ROM drives exist but never become common
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* BD-ROM drives exist and are affordable, but never become common
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* M-Disc arrives in 2009 for people that want archives that last for more than a few years
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* M-Disc media for archives that last for more than a few years
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* Super Multi DVD drives sell for less than $30, DVD-RW less than $50 and BD drives less than $100
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* Super Multi DVD drives sell for less than $40, DVD-RW less than $60
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* CD-Music sales plummet (https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/ )
  
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'''2010 - 2016: The Decline'''
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* Computers: Age of I3, I5, I7 CPUs
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* New computers still sold with optical drives
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* Affordable large USB drives replace optical drives for operating system installation
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* Download services surpass physical media for software distribution
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* DVD & BluRay Video sales plummet ( https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/dvd-and-blu-ray-sales-nearly-halved-over-five-years-mpaa-report-says/)
  
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'''2016: "Internet killed the optical star"'''
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'''2017 --> : Obsolescence'''
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* Affordable USB drives and streaming services begin replacing optical drives
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* Computers: Tablets and thin light laptops
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* Ain't no space for the optical drive
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* High end desktops still have optical drives for compatibility purposes
  
 
== This is a list of all CD/DVD drives in the wiki ==
 
== This is a list of all CD/DVD drives in the wiki ==

Revision as of 06:50, 25 April 2021

Rise and fall of ISO 9660

1989 - 1990: ISO 9660 Optical drives first reach the consumer market

  • High End System: 33MHz 386 or any 486 computer / 4MB RAM
  • 1x cd-rom drive with a proprietary controller cost > $400
  • Mitsubishi / Mitsumi / Sony / Panasonic each had their own interface

1991 - 1992: Microsoft sets MPC1 standards

  • High End System: 50Mhz 486DX CPU w/ Local Bus / 8MB RAM
  • 2x CD Rom Drives (Twice as Fast!!)
  • IDE & SCSI CDROM interfaces begin to replace proprietary interfaces
  • Most new soundcards contain an IDE or SCSI interface for attaching an Optical drive

1993 - 1994: MPC Level 2 Standard

  • High End System: Socket 4&5 Pentium / Mature 486 / 16MB RAM
  • 3x & 4x IDE & SCSI CDROM drives arrive at $400 price point.
  • IDE drives with higher speeds tend to arrive sooner at lower price points
  • CD-Rom drives that used cartridges to hold disks were still common
  • Expensive CD-R drives were available at prices over $700

1995 - 1996: MPC Level 3 Standard

  • High End System: Socket 7 / Socket 8 / 32MB RAM
  • 4x to 12 x IDE CD ROM appear, still using CLV (Constant Linear Velocity)
  • Fastest drives enter at the $400 price point, low end drives available for $100
  • Tray loading drives displace the cartridge drives
  • "El Torito" extension to ISO 9660 provides for bootable CD-Roms
  • "Joliet" extension to ISO 9660 allow long unicode filenames
  • CD-R drives become affordable, but buffer underruns are a common occurrence on IDE models
  • CD-RW drive appear
  • Slot Loading CR-Roms appear

1997 - 1999: CAV Drives and DVD-ROMs

  • High End System: Slot 1 / Super Socket 7 / 64MB RAM
  • CR-ROM drives are a standard feature on new PC builds
  • CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) CDROM drives appear with speeds > 12x that quickly ramped up from 24x to 52x and were often quite loud
  • ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI) becomes official, adding removable media features to the ATA protocol
  • 1x & 2x DVD-ROM appear
  • Affordable CD-R drives that work reliably are available
  • CDROM prices drop to $50 for a low end drive, $100 for a high speed drive and $200 for an 8x CD-R burner
  • DVD-ROM (Up to 10x ) appear, quickly dropping in price to less than $400
  • DVD-RW (Versions < 1.2) appear near the end of this period

2000 - 2004: Writeable DVDs mature

  • Computers: Socket 370 / Slot A / Socket A / Socket 423 / Socket 754 / Socket 939
  • DVD-ROM drives replace CD-ROMS as the most common optical drive on a new computer
  • DVD-ROM speeds pass 10x
  • DVD-RW Version 1.2 appears as the standard matures
  • DVD+R / DVD+RW appear
  • DVD drives become commodity items with prices well below $100
  • Floppy drives begin to become unnecessary, leaving optical drives as the primary boot media for installing operating systems

2005 - 2009: Commodity Optical Drives

  • Computers: Socket >= 775 / Socket >= AM2
  • Early Sata optical drives appear that use Pata chipsets with a Sata bridge on the controller, not ideal performance
  • True Sata Super Multi DVD drives with 20x speeds soon replace PATA drives and Bridged drives for new builds
  • Most DVD writers support all common +/- formats
  • BD-ROM drives exist and are affordable, but never become common
  • M-Disc media for archives that last for more than a few years
  • Super Multi DVD drives sell for less than $40, DVD-RW less than $60
  • CD-Music sales plummet (https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/ )

2010 - 2016: The Decline

2017 --> : Obsolescence

  • Computers: Tablets and thin light laptops
  • Ain't no space for the optical drive
  • High end desktops still have optical drives for compatibility purposes

This is a list of all CD/DVD drives in the wiki

DeviceBus typeBus versionBus speedCD readCD readCD-RCD-RCD-RWDVDTransportDiscsLine outSPDIF
Matsushita CW-7503SCSISCSI-210 MHz20 x3 MB/s
20 x
8 x1.2 MB/s
8 x
0 x0 xTray1None
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