CD-R
This 'recordable' CD can be burnt with your data only once and is compatible with most CD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 80m of audio data or 700Mb of data storage.

CD-R Mini
This 8cm 'recordable' CD can be burnt with your data only once and is compatible with most CD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 21m of audio data or 180Mb of data storage.

CD-RW
This 're-write' disc can be re-written many times. This disc is slightly less stable in CD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 80m of audio data and 700Mb of data storage

CD-R Business card
This rectangular 'recordable' CD is 86x58mm and can hold up to 52Mb of data

DVD-R
This 'recordable' DVD can be burnt with your data only once and is 93% compatible with DVD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 4.7 GB of data storage and almost 2hrs of video

DVD R
This 'recordable' DVD is similar to the DVD-R but is more suited to holding data rather than video. It is slightly less compatible with DVD players and drives

DVD-R Dual Layer
This 'recordable' DVD has two layers on the recording surface allowing up to 8.4Mb of data or up to 4hrs of video to be burnt. It is compatible with most DVD players and drives.

DVD-RW
This 're-write' disc can be re-written many times. This disc is slightly less stable in DVD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 4.7 GB of data storage and almost 2hrs of video, and can be re-written up to 1000 times.

DVD RW
This 're-write' disc can be re-written many times. This disc is slightly less stable in DVD players and drives. This disc can hold up to 4.7 GB of data storage and almost 2hrs of video, and can be re-written up to 1000 times.

DVD-RAM
This double-sided DVD is a virtual hard disk with random read-write access of up to 4.7 GB of data each side. This disc can be re-written up to 100,000 times, but it is not yet compatible with most DVD players and drives.

BD-R
This 'recordable' blu-ray disc can be written on once only and therefore prevents accidental deletion of data. This BD-R is an ideal choice for archiving your data or for distributing multimedia files.

BD-RE
This 're-write' blu-ray disc can be re-written many times, and therefore offers editing functionality. BD-RE is an ideal media disc for making sequential backups.

BD-ROM
This 'read-only' blu-ray disc contains pre-recorded data, this can be any type of data but mainly is used for high definition movies for playback on blu-ray players.