Blank Blu-ray discs have had their heyday and unlike tape, it is unlikely that they will survive the rapid drop in price of solid state drives and hard disk drives as both media close the gap ...

not a true storage medium. Future versions, they note, could be the size of a Blu-ray disc. The new method involved the use of a laser to remove single carbon atoms from the surface of the diamond ...

The 64-millimeter (2.5-inch) discs, held in a plastic cartridge similar to a floppy disk, were developed ... behind media ...

Ohio-based start-up Folio Photonics has announced new innovations in the world of data storage, promising to pave the way for affordable optical discs that can store up to 1TB per disc. In comparison, ...

For Sony this seems to have now escalated to where it’ll be shuttering its recordable optical media storage operations, after more than 18 years of producing recordable Blu-ray discs.

While traditional storage techniques use two dimensions ... to a 4,000-fold increase over the 3-layer, 100GB limit that Blu-ray discs currently have. You may like Forget streaming — I think ...

A direct access storage device that is written and read by light. The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud ... There are three optical-disk options: standard DVD & Blu-Ray recordable disks, archive-quality DVD-R, and M-disc. DVD and Blu-Ray discs use ...

are frustrating to buy again just because a disk got scratched. This is why I like to back up my discs to a computer hard drive—so I have a redundant copy. To back up a Blu-ray or DVD ...