Facebook has built a prototype cold storage system that uses Blu-ray Discs instead of traditional drives."The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its ...

Facebook’s hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers’ homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

Only a fraction of Facebook’s hundreds of billions of photos are viewed regularly, while the rest languish pages deep in our profiles. These older images are rarely seen, but they still take up vital ...

The storage capacity of Blu-ray discs is doubling, with companies including Sharp, TDK and Verbatim preparing to launch new discs that can store up to 100GB of data. Sharp will start selling the first ...

A new Blu-ray Disc promises to keep data fresh long after it might have decayed on other discs. The MDisc, developed by Utah-based Millenniata, will be available from June this year in a 25 gigabyte ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When you think of Blu-ray, you think of movies on a disc. You don’t think of a data center. But Facebook executives saw beyond that minor detail. Facebook has worked with a vendor ...

GE's micro-holographic material can support on one disc the same storage capacity as 20 standard Blu-ray discs NISKAYUNA, New York, July 20, 2011 – GE Global Research, the technology development arm ...

Japanese manufacturer Pioneer developed a new BD-R discs that is guaranteed to store data for at least 100 years. Pioneer's solution to this problem is a new external USB 3.0 Blu-ray optical drive ...

Online storage that Amazon launched in 2012 "Amazon Glacier"Can save a large amount of data at a very cheap price. The storage medium does not have a chance to see it directly, but it may be a Blu - ...

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facebook has developed a prototype storage system that uses a 7 feet tall cabinet filled with 10,000 ...