The technology is what is known as five-dimensional (5)D optical storage and it is one the University of Southampton team has been pursuing for a while. It was first demonstrated back in 2013, with ...

Data storage affects every aspect of modern life, but it turns out the technology developed for Blu-ray data storage can also have other uses. Solar cells work by trapping light, and it turns out that ...

In contrast to the flaming BF discussion, I really don't care about the video format wars, but I am looking forward to doing my LAN backups on 50GB disks rather than the 4.7GB I've been stuck with for ...

Facebook has a whole heap of data to store, but much of it sits so deep within our profiles that it rarely need to be served. So the social network has been trying to develop cold storage systems to ...

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 ...

With the rise of streaming services, Blu-Ray and DVD purchases have fallen off a cliff, with purchases for both primarily being done by collectors or hard-core fans of that specific media. However, ...

A new method of writing data onto glass using lasers could store 500 terabytes on a single optical disc – but it takes so long to create that its applications may be limited. The technique uses ...

PowerFile Inc. on Monday announced that it has added Blu-ray disk technology to the latest version of its Active Archive Appliance, part of its effort to move beyond the limits of DVD in scaling the ...

List-priced at launch at $799.99, the NAS N4B1N provides up to 4 TB (or possibly more, depending on how it's configured) worth of storage. It's architected with four HDD bays, an e-SATA interface, and ...

HEXUS.lifestyle: So you’re saying that the disc capacity becomes irrelevant when comparing video footage between HD DVD and Blu-ray? Jim Armour: Yes, that’s exactly it. HD DVD uses AVC, VC-1 and ...

Sony Corp. will announce next month that it developed an 8-layer version of the Blu-ray Disc that is capable of storing 200GB of data, according to a company spokesman. The announcement will be made ...