A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs.

Blu-ray discs today come with storage capacities of 25GB for a single-layer disc, and 50GB for a dual-layer disc. The 100GB disc adds a third storage layer for extra capacity.

When it came to external storage devices that do not need any power, Floppy Disks, DVD Players, and CDs were popular options a decade ago. Then came the Blu-ray Disc. A portable storage device is ...

In addition to a sophisticated Blu-ray disc archive the Open Compute Summit included several displays featuring the new 6 TB He-filled HDD from HGST (a division of Western Digital). 6 TB is the ...

Imations corresponding Blu-ray recordable (write-once) media, announced July 13, can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disk at a retail price of $19.99 but can only be used on a Blu-ray machine.

Describing Sony's Blu-ray disk burner as having 25GB capacity is much like describing the Mona Lisa by spouting the square footage of its canvas.

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

Panasonic is calling on the Blu-ray Disc Association to create an interface standard that will force manufacturers to store 3D images within the left- and right-eye two-channel mode on all HD ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think of Blu-ray, you think of movies on a disc. You don’t think of a data center. But Facebook executives saw beyond that minor detail. Facebook has worked with a ...

Hitachi-LG Data Storage has developed a prototype data storage device that uses Blu-ray Disc cartridges, each capable of holding a terabyte of data.

Facebook has built a prototype cold storage system that uses Blu-ray Discs instead of traditional drives."The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with ...

The technology, developed by GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co., differs from current optical storage such as Blu-ray and DVD, which store data only on ...