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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the ...

Optical discs like Blu-ray are losing favor, but Sony and Panasonic don’t seem to care. The companies have cranked up the storage capacity on optical media to a stunning 3.3TB. That’s a big advance in ...

The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data. Sharp will start selling the first ...

Sony and Panasonic have announced the formulated "Archived Disc", the fruit of their joint labours to create a new generation of optical discs for digital storage. The partnership between the two ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facebook has developed a prototype storage system that uses a 7 feet tall cabinet filled with 10,000 ...