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 drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming ...

A bunch Shanghai boffins have used a tiny laser to cram loads of data onto a disk. The final result is a disk with a 3D stack of data layers that can hold a petabit (Pb) of information - that's 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 ...

About three years ago, I wrote a column about the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that involved optical disk drives. Think "DVD players," and "CD players," as well as various gaming platforms ...

Sony Corporation has announced that it will release on May 20 the BW-RS101, a blue violet laser optical disk drive that uses 23.3GB/side “Professional Disc for Data” write-once and rewritable disks.

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 total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 175 ZB (Zettabytes; 1 ZB equals 1 billion Terabytes) by 2025. If 175 ZB were stored on Blu-ray disks, the disk stack would be 23 times ...

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 ...

Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disk format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disk, the company said today. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

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