Forbes December 11, 2024
During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical recording. Optical storage media was a big consumer technology in the past as a method for digital content distribution but there was another market for optical storage for archival storage, where cartridges of optical discs were kept in libraries, similar to the optical libraries used for magnetic tape storage.
These libraries used optical discs which were derived from Blu-ray and other mass market optical storage technologies and were often write-once optical media meant for archive applications. Let’s talk about where optical storage fits into the storage hierarchy and about the technologies being introduced by a number of optical storage startups,...