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 ...

A team of researchers has developed an optical disc that holds an incredible 200 terabytes of data - over 4,000 times more than a Blu-ray. This isn’t just nostalgia; it’s a leap forward for archival, ...

New optical disc has room for 1,000 copies of Baldur's Gate 3. The DVD and Blu-ray era isn't over yet, as scientists demonstrate the potential for a laser-based disc with 125TB of storage space.

The key to that vision might be 5D optical storage, which has a data density 10,000 times that of a Blu-ray disc (Opens in a new window). But it's always been far too slow to write data onto glass ...

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 ...

Read all optical disc tagged news at ... Japan-based Taiyo Yuden has decided to reduce its monthly capacity of blank CD-R and DVD optical discs by 40.9% from 110 million discs currently to 65 ...

WALNUT CREEK, CALIF.— XenData’s SX-520 Series of Archive Servers will now support Sony’s Optical Disc Archive products. The combined offering, which will be available by the end of the year, gives ...

Production units of the Optical Media format equipment, to be shown at IBC2003 this fall, include the PDW-530/530p and PDW-510/510p camcorders, PDW-V1 laptop edit system, PDW-1500 compact source deck ...

Blu-ray vs optical disk. There are two types of optical media in use today. The most popular by far is Blu-ray Disc Recordable (BD-R), which can write at 72MB/s and read at 54MB/s.