New ‘5D’ Disc Storage Can Store 500TB of Data for 13 Billion Years

A new high-speed laser writing method claims that it can pack 500 terabytes (TB) of storage onto a single CD-sized glass disc. That equals somewhere in the neighborhood of 125,000,000 photos. Researchers from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom say they have developed a fast and energy-efficient laster-writing method that can produce high-density […]