We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

Facebook's cold storage today is entirely on spinning disks. The prototype Blu-ray system is estimated to be 50 percent cheaper than the disk-based cold storage, and 80 percent more energy efficient.

Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray ... drives."The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk ...

The long, hot summer may be winding down, but the HD-DVD-versus-Blu-Ray optical media marketing wars are just starting to heat up. Five days after Sony announced it has started shipping 50GB dual ...

Higher-density storage technique could allow diamond disk to store equivalent of 2,000 Blu-ray discs. ... Future versions, they note, could be the size of a Blu-ray disc.

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 ...

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, ...

Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of storage, wireless networking and memory solutions, today announced the availability of its new external Blu-ray ...

A couple of years ago, Facebook revealed it was using Blu-ray disks as a cost-efficient way to archive the billions of images that users uploaded to its service. Now, Panasonic has said it plans to ...

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 As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges ...