I've been trying to put some files on a DVD. It's only 1.07GB of data to burn to a 4.7GB disc. But this continually fails to write. Since I know the discs are good and I know the burner works and I ...

This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers ...

DVDs and Blu-ray discs probably don’t get as much respect as they deserve from technophiles, simply because the amount of data they can store in comparison to hard drives or flash is minuscule. But ...

General Electric Global Research says it has figured out a way to put up to 500GB of data on a regular-sized DVD disc under laboratory conditions. GE says its breakthrough was achieved by writing ...

I don't have a DVD burner yet, so I need to ask you guys:<BR><BR>1. If I just burn gigs of data onto a writeable DVD, can I access all those files if I reboot a machine in DOS using the usual MSCDEX ...

Data storage and preservation are no longer restricted to the needs of individual users, or even of companies or governments large and small. Instead they are the only remaining approach to preserving ...

We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90 per cent of the world's data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all? In Nature ...

At the upcoming CES conference in Las Vegas, one company plans to demonstrate the ability to store half a terabyte of data on a DVD disc that is made of a polymer similar to Plexiglas. Israel-based ...