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, ...

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 ...

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.

Image: Adobe Stock. Folio Photonics has announced that it will reveal the first-ever enterprise-scale, optical disc data storage solution during CES 2023, on Jan. 5–8, in Las Vegas.The new ...

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 got myself a new USB blu-ray drive last week, so now I feel the need to justify my purchase. Hence the following claim: optical discs will remain in use forever. Well, the rest of this century ...

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 ...

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.