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WORM compliant device what is it?

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I am doing a questionnaire for a contract and one of the questions asked is “Are electronic records archived to a WORM compliant device?” What is a WORM compliant device ?  Any help ?

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Write Once, Read Many times. A storage that you only write to once
Wikipedia entry  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many

but your standard writable CD or DVD media falls into this classification.
Let's give the author a chance to follow up with anything additional and then choose which answer(s) they will accept and grade accordingly.

Jim.
Agree and Jim's answer contains all information required and should be only accepted answer
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Agree.

Too early to close the question.  Unless there is a reason for it we don't know about.

And yes jim has substantially answered the question.   Other comments just add minor clarifications to it.
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So Emc Centera has stadard HDDs but the Device itself is complant as WORM device?
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