Facebook's cold storage today is entirely on spinning disks. The prototype Blu-ray system is estimated to be 50 percent cheaper than the disk-based cold storage, and 80 percent more energy efficient.

Blu-ray is merely a more reliable medium for storage, and it can hold more than regular DVDs and CDs, Schellong said. What makes Facebook’s appliance notable is its sheer scale, of holding a ...

Of course, there are downsides to having a large DVD and Blu-ray collection, too. Like how most of us who have been confined to our homes for the majority of 2020 have been trying to de-clutter ...

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 ...

The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk drives, said Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president ...

Blu-ray disks are about to get a whole lot bigger. The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced two super-sized new specs for the already capacious disks, letting them squeeze up to 128GB onto a ...

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 ...

In contrast to the flaming BF discussion, I really don't care about the video format wars, but I am looking forward to doing my LAN backups on 50GB disks rather than the 4.7GB I've been stuck with ...

New optical tech could slash archival costs by 10x or even more Optera Data’s discs could hit 10TB for just $1 - cheaper than ...