CDs may feel like a relic of the past, but new research is turning them into the future of data storage. Scientists have ...

Japanese brand Pioneer has announced that it has bid farewell to the optical disc market. It was one of the last big Japanese ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

Optical disks and magnetic tapes are suitable media for the long-term storage of large amounts of data. We are developing thin optical disks using paper-thin 0.1-mm-thick substrate as a means of ...

The legendary Japanese brand Pioneer has said it's ceasing all production of optical drives for Blu-ray media players and DVD ...

Using 3D storage techniques, scientists at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology developed an optical disk capable of accommodating 1.6 petabits of data (that's 1.6 million gigabits).

As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on optical disc. It was a halcyon time. Fast forward to today ...

Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

A storage system that contains multiple optical drives that read and write the media simultaneously. Libraries may hold one disc per drive or have storage for any number of discs or cartridges ...