New "Archival Disc" aims to be the "new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs"; 300GB version rolling out next summer. By Eddie Makuch on March 10, 2014 at 12:54PM PDT ...

New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than tape! The low-power, high-density storage has data centers in mind ...

Optical Disc Archive Gen3 employs Sony's Archival Disc (AD) dual-sided media. The Gen3 optical drive reads and writes both sides of the double-sided media to enable an average, read rate of 375 MB ...

Manufacturers are powering up on their Blu-ray disc development, now the format war’s over: just two weeks ago we had the 6x speed ones, and now Delkin has these archive-quality discs.

Everspan will store data on media called Archival Discs, which will initially have 300GB of capacity, with 150GB on each side of the disc. The capacity will grow to 1TB over the next five years.

Where archival discs nowadays offer up to three optical layers per side per disc, Folio's achieve 16 film layers. The company plans to continue increasing that number.

Targeting the price similar to golden archival discs that are currently available, Millenniata is looking to charge about $3 per M-Disc. The capacity is on target with 4.7GB single-layer DVD discs ...

"Traditional Blu-ray discs are three or four layers and have been for 20 years (the Archival disc achieves 6 layers by having 3-layers on both sides)," Santamaria explained in a different ...