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OCR: COMPUTER HARDWARE can contain hundreds or -in the case of a mainframe -thousands of feet of tape Access time is measured i in seconds, not in milliseconds as for hard disk drive Tape is simply too slow to be practical as computer's main stor- age device. CD DVD, AND BLU-RAY TECHNOLOGY How do CD DVD and Blu-ray technologies differ? Teoay most computers come equipped with one or more drives designed to work with CD DVD, and Blu-ray technologies CD (compact disc) technology was originally designed to hold 72 minutes of recorded music. The original CD standard was adapted for computer stor- age with capacity for 650 MB of f data Later improvements CD standards increased the capacity to 80 minutes of music o 700 MB of data DVD (digital video disc or digital versatile disk) is variation of CD te ...