Which optical disc can store up to 128 GB of data?
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Sony's new optical storage disk offers an average read rate of 3Gbps and an average write rate of 1.5Gbps. Show The world is producing an insane amount of data everyday. Storing this data is no ordinary task. And so in order to fulfill the world's demand for storing large troves of data more conveniently, Sory recently launched a new optical disk that can store up to 3 million GB of data for up to 100 years. The device dubbed as the Sony Gen3 PetaSite Optical Disc Archive technology can hold from 165 TB to 2.9 PB of immutable optical storage in a standard 42U Rack. To give you an idea about its data storage capacity, 1 petabyte or PB equals 1,000TB or 1 million GB. This means that Sony's newly released optical storage disk can store up to 2.9 million GB of data. The scalable Gen3 PetaSite library includes the ODS-L30M master unit, which serves as the main building block and comes with a capacity of 165TB. Additionally, it has an ODS-L60E drive and cartridge extension unit that offer a storage capacity of 335.5TB each, and an ODS-L100E cartridge-only extension unit that provides a storage capacity of 555.5TB. Sony says that up to five extension units can be attached to the master units to make a single 42U library with a maximum of 535 cartridges and each cartridge comes with an estimated shelf life of 100 years. That surely is impressive but hold on. It can do more. Sony says that its Optical Disc Archive Gen3 uses the company's Archival Disc (AD) dual-sided media. It reads and writes both sides of the double-sided media to enable an average read rate of 3Gbps and an average write rate of 1.5Gbps. What makes Sony's newly introduced optical storage system a winner is the fact that it is write compatible to Generation 2 and backward read compatible to all Optical Disc Archive cartridges and that it works on the Write Once Read Many fundamental, which makes it immune to cyber attacks, accidental erasure and ransomware. Sony has started shipping its Gen3 PetaSite Optical Disc Archive. So if you are a corporate IT, state and local government, a banking, an educational institute or a healthcare institute, you might wanna keep and eye out for this one.
With the recent news of Avatar's Blu-ray release, it's become abundantly clear 50GB may just not be enough anymore. It's being reported on engadget that the Blu-ray Disc Association is planning on introducing the world to BDXL. This new format will still produce wonderful 1080p HD video, but will be capable of holding 128GB of data as opposed to the current generation of Blu-ray discs that hold only a mere 50GB. More after the jump: The reason Blu-ray will now be able to hold 128GB of data is through the use layering. The current Blu-Rays that we've just gotten used to usually have two layers on the disc. The BDXL discs will us four. Therefore allowing for it store 128GB (write-once) or 100GB (rewritable). However, the bad news is that this means we are all going to have dip into our pockets again to upgrade our hardware. These extra layers (that will allow for more features and data storage) will more than likely require the use of a more powerful laser that most Blu-ray players (including the PS3) don't have right now. It's been made clear that currently the demand for this technology is mainly coming from the media houses for archiving purposes, but we can all be assured that this will eventually make its way into the general consumer's home theatre. Here's the press release:
- What optical drive can hold data up to 128 GB?Optical disk storage capacities
A CD can store up to up 700 megabytes (MB) of data. A single-layer DVD can hold 4.7 gigabytes (GB) of data, and a double-layer disk can hold 8.5 GB. A single-layer Blu-ray disk can store 25 to 33.4 GB of data, and a quad-layer Blu-ray disk can store up to 128 GB of data.
What optical discs store the most data?What optical disc can hold the most? Blu-ray discs are capable of holding the most and can hold up to 50 GB of data. BD-R (Blu-ray recordable) are most often available in sizes as either 25 GB or 50 GB.
What are the 3 types of optical disc?An optical disc is designed to support one of three recording types: read-only (e.g.: CD and CD-ROM), recordable (write-once, e.g. CD-R), or re-recordable (rewritable, e.g. CD-RW).
Is BluBlu-ray is an optical disc format like CD and DVD. Blu-ray discs can hold more information than other optical media, because of the blue lasers that the disc drives use. A single Blu-ray disc can hold up to 25GB of data.
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