Ablate
- Sean O'Shea
- Mar 7, 2020
- 1 min read
The term ablate is used to describe the process of storing data on in unalterable form on an optical disc. A pattern of pits is created on the disc.

The substrate of the disc lies underneath a layer with pits. So, a disc with an ablative layer, will be write once, read many - WORM.