Hard drives and flash storage have gotten more reliable over the years, but only on a human timescale. What if we need data storage that lasts longer? Decades? Millennia? The key to that might be 5D ...

At the end of last month at GIGAZINE"Holographic disk" which realized a large capacity of 500 GB which is 20 times the size of a single layer Blu-ray disc has appearedWe have told you that "boasts an ...

Using high-speed lasers, researchers have created "5D" data storage technology that could allow 500 TB of data to be written to a CD-sized glass disc, according to the Optica society. The technique ...

CDs can hold 640 MB of data. A standard DVD tops out at 4.7 GB. And Blu-ray discs hold up to 50 GB. But a team of researchers have found a way to pack 500 terabytes onto a glass disc that’s the same ...

At a time when we are drowning in data and screaming out for better ways to safely store our information, researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a solution which could ...

The technology is what is known as five-dimensional (5)D optical storage and it is one the University of Southampton team has been pursuing for a while. It was first demonstrated back in 2013, with ...

Optica, formerly OSA, reports that researchers have developed "5D" data storage technology that might allow 500 terabytes of data to be stored on a CD-sized glass disc. The technique was developed ...