{"id":183343,"date":"2024-02-22T09:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/dvd-like-optical-disc-could-store-1-6-petabits-or-200-terabytes-on-100-layers"},"modified":"2024-02-22T09:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:22:35","slug":"dvd-like-optical-disc-could-store-1-6-petabits-or-200-terabytes-on-100-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/dvd-like-optical-disc-could-store-1-6-petabits-or-200-terabytes-on-100-layers","title":{"rendered":"DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dvd-like-optical-disc-could-store-1-6-petabits-or-200-terabytes-on-100-layers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forward-looking: As consumers increasingly turn toward digital distribution and data center operators try various storage methods, optical discs haven\u2019t stopped evolving. A recently published paper explains how manufacturers could make DVD-like discs that hold the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of Blu-rays.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06980-y\">developed<\/a> an optical disc with a capacity of over a petabit of data, equivalent to well over 100 terabytes. Although the technology is primarily proposed for enterprise use, it could potentially become accessible to consumers after overcoming significant obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists were able to significantly increase the capacity of an optical disc by implementing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3252737\/chinese-teams-memory-leap-shrinks-data-centre-storage-capacity-dvd-sized-disk\">3D planar recording<\/a> architecture. The technology uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with aggregation-induced emission dye and stimulated by femtosecond lasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward-looking: As consumers increasingly turn toward digital distribution and data center operators try various storage methods, optical discs haven\u2019t stopped evolving. A recently published paper explains how manufacturers could make DVD-like discs that hold the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of Blu-rays. Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have developed an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}