Scientists claim to have revealed a pathway to a new kind of “efficient, ultra-high-density optical memory storage.” A recently published paper, penned by researchers from the U.S. Department ...

“The electronics and entertainment conglomerate will also gradually cease production of optical disc storage media products, ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab have developed a new type of optical memory that stores data by transferring light from rare-earth ...

The traditional approach to this problem was to spatially modulate a laser beam with an image of ~one million bits, record a hologram of this image, then use Bragg selectivity to record subsequent ...

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).

A direct access storage device that is written and read by light. The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges ...

As the gaming world waits for the PlayStation 5 Pro, scalpers are reselling the console's separate, attachable disk drives at ...

Two-photon technology, which relies on overlapping light beams, can be used for three-dimensional multilayer storage and promises capacities of up to 10 Tbyte on a DVD-size disk. Today's optical ...

Optical data storage is the use of light to write and read information to and from a memory device. Storage can be achieved by using lasers to pattern a surface, such as on a compact disc ...

Magnetic storage makes use of a magnetisable coating ... Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.

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 ...

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