Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from ...

Have you ever wondered just how amazing it would be to store your data on an optical disc for 1,000 years? Probably not, considering a) it's not remotely possible right now and 2) that's an awful lot ...

"Memory is the new disk," Jim Gray liked to say. The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the ...

Just when you thought there was a limit to data storage, say hello to Mempile's five-terabyte disc. Compared to the 50GB capacity of Blu-ray, it'll potentially hold 100X more bits and bytes. Compared ...