Just when you thought there was a limit to data storage, say hello to Mempile's five-terabyte disc. Compared to the 50GB capacity of Blu-ray, it'll potentially hold 100X more bits and bytes.

By deploying cutting-edge lasers, scientists at the University of Southampton have achieved a 5D optical data storage breakthrough that offers both incredible density and long-term archiving ...

Facebook has big data. It needs to store the data as cheaply as possible. The social network's latest vision is a huge box full of Blu-ray discs.

Facebook's hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers' homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology developed a groundbreaking 3D optical disc capable of storing up to 1.6 petabytes of data—equivalent to over 200,000 DVDs on a ...

Universal Music Group is the latest company to get behind the Blu-ray optical disc, announcing its support for Sony's next-generation media format this week. Blu-ray discs will look like DVDs, but ...

Scientists say they have created a new storage technology that is 10,000 times more dense than Blu-Ray discs. The new five-dimensional optical data storage is created by using lasers and ...

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Blu-ray and DVD drives are being kicked out of PCs, and finding a new life in data centers as storage that can retain data for up to 100 years.

Packed with Blu-ray Discs based on the new BDXL format, each cartridge can hold 1TB of data. BDXL was standardized earlier this year and offers 128GB of storage space on a write-once disc and ...

In contrast to the flaming BF discussion, I really don't care about the video format wars, but I am looking forward to doing my LAN backups on 50GB disks rather than the 4.7GB I've been stuck with ...

Data storage affects every aspect of modern life, but it turns out the technology developed for Blu-ray data storage can also have other uses. Solar cells work by trapping light, ...