Write once

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006671",
  "term": "Write once",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "Describing a type of data storage media that allows information to be recorded a single time and prevents any subsequent erasure or modification. This characteristic is inherent to the physical or chemical properties of the medium, such as the dye layer in a CD-R or the fuses in a programmable read-only memory (PROM) chip. WORM (Write Once, Read Many) technology is used for permanent data archiving and record-keeping where data immutability is required by regulation.",
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "see_also": [
    "worm",
    "PROM",
    "programmable read-only memory"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Write Once",
    "es": "escritura única",
    "fr": "écriture unique"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/write-once/"
}