Significantly boosting the amount of on-disc storage requires a transition to a blue-laser-based system. The publication of this article marks an anniversary of sorts: 20 years (and a few months) ago, ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

A CD-sized optical storage disk capable of storing 1 Tbyte of data is being developed by Mempile (Neve Ilan, Israel). The inexpensive write-once disk, called TeraDisc, will be made of monolithic ...

The 1990s saw a revolution occur, launched by the CD burner. As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a fast and energy-efficient laser-writing method for producing high-density nanostructures in silica glass. These tiny structures can be used for long-term five ...

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 ...