Optical Disc Archive is a proprietary storage technology that was introduced by
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...
. It uses removable cartridges, where each cartridge holds 11 optical discs. Each of the internal optical discs is similar to, but not compatible with, a
Blu-ray
The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and capable of st ...
disc. The latest version of the cartridge, that has a total capacity of about 5.5TB, uses discs that hold about 500GB each.
The technology was publicly announced on 16 April 2012 during the
NAB Show
NAB Show is an annual trade show produced by the National Association of Broadcasters. It takes place in April, and has been held since 1991 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show's tagline is "Where Content Comes t ...
with the first units shipping in February 2013.
In 2020, the third generation of cartridges that has more storage capacity was launched.
Media
Hardware
*Depending on configuration.
Roadmap
Generation 3 of the Optical Disc Archive technology was announced for early-2020 release.
Generation 3 increased the cartridge capacity to 5.5TB, the read speed to 375MB/s and the write speed (with verification on) to 187.5MB/s.
Media roadmap
Sony Corporation
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
and
Panasonic Corporation
formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb s ...
on announced on 10 March 2014 their cooperation in producing a new media trademarked as
Archival disc. The
Archival disc media
will be used in future Optical Disc Archive Media to achieve at least 6TB of storage.
See also
*
Archival Disc
References
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Sony hardware
Optical computer storage media