Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

The technology, developed by GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co., differs from current optical storage such as Blu-ray and DVD, which store data only on the ...

Although Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD technologies have yet to reach the mainstream, a Japanese company said it has made progress toward a more advanced holographic technology that may one day replace them ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new paper published by researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology teases that they've developed an optical disc that's capable ...

When it comes to long-term storage of digital files that don’t need to be readily accessed, gigantic hard drives aren’t actually the most popular solution. It’s a lot cheaper to rely on a medium ...

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of General Electric Co., said today it has made a breakthrough in holographic optical disc storage, claiming that its researchers have developed ...

At CES 2023, Folio Photonics will reveal an enterprise-grade optical data storage solution. Here’s what we know about it so far. Folio Photonics has announced that it will reveal the first-ever ...

Forward-looking: Despite consumer PCs and game consoles transitioning to faster SSDs, traditional disk drives (HDDs) continue to offer ever more space for cold storage at lower prices. One company ...

AI driven demand for HDD capacity will exceed shipping non-AI demand by 2030.  This will be driven mostly by increased HDD capacities rather than shipping more HDDs.