Optical Disc Archive Optical Disc Archive Optical Disc Archive is a storage technology that was introduced by the Sony Corporation. It uses removable cartridges, where each cartridge holds 12 optical discs. Each of the internal optical discs is similar to, but not compatible with, a Blu-ray disc. The latest version of the cartridge, that has a total capacity of about 3.3TB, uses discs that hold about 300GB each. The technology was publicly announced on 16 April 2012 during the NAB Show with the first units shipping in February 2013. Generation 2 of the Optical Disc Archive technology is scheduled for mid-2016. Generation 2
Optical disc recording technologies Optical disc recording technologies Optical disc authoring requires a number of different optical disc recorder technologies working in tandem, from the optical disc media to the firmware to the control electronics of the optical disc drive. This article discusses some of the more important technologies. There are numerous formats of recordable optical direct to disk on the market, all of which are based on using a laser to change the reflectivity of the digital recording medium in order to duplicate the effects of the pits and lands created when a commercial optical disc is pressed. Emerging technologies such as holographic