New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than ...

With up to 50 GB of available storage space, the capacity of commercially available Blu-ray discs is comparable to that of many external PC hard drives used for backing up data. While not yet ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think of Blu-ray, you think of movies on a disc. You don’t think of a data center. But Facebook executives saw beyond that minor detail. Facebook has worked with a ...

Facebook's hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers' homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

Facebook has built a storage system from 10,000 Blu-ray discs that holds a petabyte of data and is highly energy-efficient, the company said Tuesday. Facebook said last year that it was exploring ...

making it 10,000 times denser than a Blu-ray disc. The researchers imagine the tech finding use in preserving information from someone's DNA, or for long-term data storage for national archives ...

The technique uses similar technology to existing optical media, but can store 10,000 times more data than Blu-ray discs ... optical data storage because it uses two optical dimensions, based ...

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, ...

Right now, experts say there is no one storage device that can save data forever. Options like magnetic tape, Blu-ray Disc, and even DNA may provide stable but relatively temporary storage banks ...

Kaleidescape is a system that gives you a huge storage device at home so that you can download movies that are better than 4K Blu-ray quality. There's around 30-35% more data according to ...