Editing Optical disc (section)

=== Durability ===
[[File:Water running on CD-RW - label side.jpg|thumb|Optical discs are not vulnerable to water.]]
Although optical discs are more durable than earlier audio-visual and data storage formats, they are susceptible to environmental and daily-use damage, if handled improperly.

Optical discs are not prone to uncontrollable [[catastrophic failure]]s such as [[head crash]]es, [[Voltage spike|power surge]]s, or exposure to water like [[hard disk drive]]s and [[flash storage]], since optical drives' storage controllers are not tied to optical discs themselves like with hard disk drives and [[flash memory controller]]s, and a disc is usually recoverable from a defective optical drive by pushing an unsharp needle into the emergency ejection pinhole, and has no point of immediate water ingress and no integrated circuitry.