CDs may feel like a relic of the past, but new research is turning them into the future of data storage. Scientists have ...

Digital data storage technologies are very diverse. Most notable are magnetic storage (HDD, tape), optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) and semiconductor memories (SSD, flash drive). Each type of ...

Long term data storage is tricky. Hard discs and magnetic tapes lose their charge, CDs and DVDs are easy to scratch, and forget about punch cards. Now a student at the University of Twente has ...

Comparatively high storage capacity was one major factor. CD-R and CD-RW disks can hold nearly 500 times more information than the previous data storage standard, the 3 -inch floppy disk.

The downtrend graph of the recordable optical disc market reveals a CAGR of -1.40% from 2024 to 2034. Reading the numbers, it ...

Optical data storage is the use of light to write and read information to and from a memory device. Storage can be achieved by using lasers to pattern a surface, such as on a compact disc ...

The operation of optical data storage is rather simple. When you burn a CD, for example, the information is transformed to strings of binary digits (0s and 1s, also called bits). Each bit is then ...

Data storage and preservation are no longer restricted to the needs of individual users, or even of companies or governments large and small. Instead they are the only remaining approach to ...