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 ...

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 ...

Facebook has developed a prototype Blu-ray storage system capable of holding 1 petabyte of data, a move that could revitalise the Blu-ray industry. The social media giant is about to step on toes ...

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 ...

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

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 ...