Blu-rays can last anywhere between 20-100 years, which is quite a range. Here's how I'm keeping mine in mint condition.

Facebook’s hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers’ homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

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A couple of years ago, Facebook revealed it was using Blu-ray disks as a cost-efficient way to archive the billions of images that users uploaded to its service. Now, Panasonic has said it plans to ...

Although 200GB storage discs for Blu-ray have been out and about for a while, no player can actually read them. However, Hitachi’s just raised the bar of practicality (as opposed to the bar of numbers ...

Facebook has announced it is developing a new data storage system design that uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs, instead of traditional hard drives, that can store up to a petabyte of data. Blu-ray discs can ...

In a world filled with storage options, there's still no perfect solution to long-term cold storage for corporations and those who need to archive data for the long haul. Facebook has been making ...

Optical media sounds antiquated on the surface, but we're actually only a few innovations away from discs re-conquering the ...

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 ...

If you thought Netflix and iTunes would make optical discs a thing of the past, think again. Facebook has built a storage system from 10,000 Blu-ray discs that holds a petabyte of data and is highly ...

This week Sony launched its first Blu-ray recording device for the masses, the Sony BWU-100A, a standard 5.25-in., half-height internal box with a parallel ATA connection that writes and reads a ...