Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs, are durable and inexpensive. A standard single-layer Blu-ray disc can store 25 gigabytes. By comparison, some USB flash drives can store 1TB, and ...

SilverStone Technology has now introduced the Treasure TS06, a brand new storage accessory for notebook users which includes an external enclosure supporting one 12.7mm optical drive, and a drive ...

Forward-looking: As consumers increasingly turn toward digital distribution and data center operators try various storage methods, optical discs haven't stopped evolving. A recently published ...

Many consider optical disc drives to be a relic and unnecessary in this day and age. But there are a few reasons why you should still own such a drive, for example from Hitachi.

New optical disc has room for 1,000 copies of Baldur's Gate 3. The DVD and Blu-ray era isn't over yet, as scientists demonstrate the potential for a laser-based disc with 125TB of storage space.

The final result is an optical disk with a three-dimensional stack of data layers capable of holding a whopping 1 petabit (Pb) of information—that’s equivalent to 125,000 gigabytes of data.

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The company plans to start offering the new hard drives in 2024, with 10-disc units carrying 1TB per disk, translating to 10TB HDDs for around $50. Currently, that much money might get you a 2TB HDD.

To put it into perspective, a diamond optical disc of the same size as a standard Blu-ray could hold 100 terabytes of data—equivalent to 2,000 Blu-rays—while far outlasting their limited ...

Diamond optical discs could store data for millions of years. Researchers used lasers to make space for files on an atomic level. By Andrew Paul. Published Nov 27, 2024 10:47 AM EST.