Toshiba Corp. has developed a rewritable optical disc with a capacity of 30GB per layer, per side and a companion read/write optical head that incorporates a blue laser, the company announced today.

Toshiba Corp. presented a paper at the Optical Data Storage meeting held May 10-14 in Vancouver, Canada on its development of a dual layer 36-Gbyte rewritable disk for the Advanced Optical Disk (AOD) ...

TOKYO–May 9,2003–Toshiba Corporation announced that it has developed a working prototype of a high-capacity. dual-layer, single-sided, blue-laser-rewritable optical disk. The new disk enjoys key ...

TOKYO — Running toward a planned commercial launch in August, Fujitsu Ltd. began sample shipments Thursday of a new disk drive that will support the 2.3GB version of its rewritable magneto-optical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In a world driven by data, the relentless growth of digital information is pushing existing storage technologies to their limits. Every day, vast amounts of data are generated, ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...