Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 ...

Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Pioneer has developed an optical disc that can hold up to 400GB of data easily surpassing previously announced prototypes. Pioneer’s new optical disc technology can store 400GB on a single disc — 8 ...

Sony’s push to get enterprise users to store data on optical discs has received added momentum with its acquisition of a Facebook-linked startup focused on optical storage. Led by former Facebook ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges that ...

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Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media are ...

Folio Photonics innovates in optical data storage for enterprise data centers Your email has been sent At CES 2023, Folio Photonics will reveal an enterprise-grade ...