Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...

Fujitsu’s A77-K3 combines a 13th-gen Intel Core i5 processor and a DVD drive, challenging the modern trend of ultra-light, ...

A recent study released by Northwestern University demonstrated the possibility of using photonic jets to further increase the storage density of optical disc media. Arstechnica: Photonic jets could ...

This week, Sony has launched a storage appliance that eschews traditional magnetic media like hard drives and tapes in favor of lasers and plastics. The Everspan Library System is best described as a ...

TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer 320 GB optical disk - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is at the ...

Sony and Panasonic are teaming up to develop a standard for professional-level optical drives. Ultimately, the duo hopes to release a 300GB optical drive by the end of 2015. The durable optical disc — ...

You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you like to keep them backed up. Around a decade ago, you gave up on burning optical discs, and switched to storing your ...

Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard disk drives to ...