Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from ...

Millenniata, a new optical disc company, has partnered with Hitachi-LG Data Storage to create M-DISC and M-READY disc storage technology that permanently etches data onto the write layer of the disc ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical CD storage rack tower - Thomas Nuehnen/Shutterstock Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats ...

If you are like me, you probably have tons of cd’s and dvd’s scattered around the place and can never find the one you want when you need it. The USB CD/DVD storage carousel takes care of this and ...

A new type of archival storage technology has been developed with the potential to store a petabyte of data on a CD-sized disc disk yet remain backward-compatible with existing CD and DVD technologies ...

At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba announced that it had developed a high-capacity HD DVD disc capable of storing 17GB on each of three disc layers, for a grand total of 51GB. It was good ...

A group of scientists working together with the Institute of Optics and Optical Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin claim to have discovered a way to store 500GB worth of data on ...

Scientists from China are currently working on an optical disc that could store up to 200 terabytes of data in the size of a DVD, as reported by IEEE Spectrum. This is made possible by storing data in ...

A growing number of laptop computers are shipping without CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives, but the optical disc drive may have some life left in it. Sony and Panasonic have announced a new platform they ...