It's tricky to determine the right usage of a word when it's spelled two different ways. Disc and disk sound identical, but ...

Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data, or the combined storage capacity of about 15,000 ...

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Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is ...

Closeup, darkened image of the top section of the PlayStation 5 Pro. Sony is sticking with an optical disc drive for at least ...

Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...

TOKYO Hitachi Ltd. and Asahi Optical Co. Ltd. have jointly developed an optical-head technology that they say will enable a 100-Gbyte optical-disk system. Hitachi and Asahi use a single objective lens ...