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 its ...

A major development in the production of optical discs has happened this week. Scientists at the University of Shanghai have unveiled a new form of optical disc that can hold up to 200,000 gigabytes ...

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 vendor ...

Facebook’s hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers’ homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

GE's micro-holographic material can support on one disc the same storage capacity as 20 standard Blu-ray discs NISKAYUNA, New York, July 20, 2011 – GE Global Research, the technology development arm ...

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs. The MDisc, developed by Utah-based Millenniata, will be available from June this year in a 25 gigabyte ...

Online storage that Amazon launched in 2012 "Amazon Glacier"Can save a large amount of data at a very cheap price. The storage medium does not have a chance to see it directly, but it may be a Blu - ...

Japanese manufacturer Pioneer developed a new BD-R discs that is guaranteed to store data for at least 100 years. Pioneer's solution to this problem is a new external USB 3.0 Blu-ray optical drive ...