Blu-ray is merely a more reliable medium for storage, and it can hold more than regular DVDs and CDs, Schellong said. What makes Facebook’s appliance notable is its sheer scale, of holding a ...

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 ...

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 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.

FWIW Toast 8 boasts Blu-Ray burning support. I've seen a few drives in the Mac sections of Tokyo electronics stores, but the price has kept me far away to date. ••• C ...

Technology '5D' storage could hold 10,000 times more data than a Blu-ray disc An advanced version of the technology used to create DVDs and Blu-rays can store far more data, though it takes a ...

Whilst talking at this year’s Open Compute Summit, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, Jay Parikh, explained how a prototype cold storage system could allow the social network to free up ...

News Panasonic to commercialize Facebook’s Blu-ray cold storage systems Facebook has said Blu-ray can cut costs significantly for long term data storage By James Niccolai Jan 5, 2016 12:38 pm PST ...

This week Sony launched its first Blu-ray recording device for the masses, the Sony BWU-100A, a standard 5.25-in., half-height internal box with a parallel ATA connection that writes and reads a ...

In personal computing, methods for external data storage have evolved from cassettes and 51/4” floppy disks to solid state USB drives and Blu-ray discs. Capacity of these formats has increased ...

The Active Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition, or A3, utilizes Blu-ray media from Panasonic Industrial Co., which boosts the optical storage density in the appliance to 120TB per appliance.