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 ...

Researchers encoded the equivalent of 10,000 Blu-rays onto a standard-sized optical disk. Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses. But despite ...

We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features.

The 1990s saw a revolution occur, launched by the CD burner. As prices of writeable media and drives dropped, consumers rushed to duplicate games, create their own mix CDs, and backup their data on ...

Researchers developed a 3D optical disc capable of storing up to 1.6 petabytes of data by stacking 100 ultra-transparent ...

The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade ...

Makers of new blue laser optical disk technology said this week that they have their sights firmly set on enterprise archiving applications currently handled by magnetic tape and even some nearline ...

Well if it'll read audio CDs, the laser and tracking mechanism are both perfectly fine. What happens when you insert a data CD? Does it tell you there's no disc inserted, or just let you browse a ...

Combination CD-R/RW and DVD drive attains 7,800-Kbyte/s CD recording speed Claiming the fastest CD recording speed of any combination CD-R/RW and DVD optical disc drive, the SM-352 gives system ...