Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 ...

New technology offer cost-efficient and sustainable solution to global data storage challenge, while enabling the pivot from Big Data to Long Data and opening new realms of scientific discovery ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured. Refurbished drives and media are ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

The optic disc is a non-sensory spot in the retina where the axons of the ganglion cells carrying afferent light-induced impulses to the visual cortex of the brain converge to leave the eye. It ...

Sony Corp. will launch a new optical disk format in November that allows for storage of up to 23.3GB per disk, the company said today. The format, called Professional Disc for Data, is being ...