Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical CD storage rack tower - Thomas Nuehnen/Shutterstock Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats ...

Step aside, flash storage: here's why I swear by DVD-R and DVD-RW discs for all my data archival needs in 2026 (yes, really).

Scientists from China are currently working on an optical disc that could store up to 200 terabytes of data in the size of a DVD, as reported by IEEE Spectrum. This is made possible by storing data in ...

CDs can hold 640 MB of data. A standard DVD tops out at 4.7 GB. And Blu-ray discs hold up to 50 GB. But a team of researchers have found a way to pack 500 terabytes onto a glass disc that’s the same ...

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 ...