A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

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).

the milestone of 1 terabyte per disk. Despite the high expectations for plasmonic data storage, Mansuripur believes that the first optical storage products to hit the market will be read-only ...

Starting while at a Silicon Valley startup, Siros Technologies, we explored an alternative approach extnending current optical disk technologies. Here, a spinning disk is written and read by a focused ...

Optical disks and magnetic tapes are suitable media for the long-term storage of large amounts of data. We are developing thin optical disks using paper-thin 0.1-mm-thick substrate as a means of ...