The Return of the Optical Disc Why Optical Storage Is Ideal for Long-Term Professional Data Storage

The Return of the Optical Disc Why Optical storage is ideal for long-term professional data storage

With the advent of digital downloads The reasons are simple. Optical has and Internet streaming, the many advantages over alternatives popularity of optical media as a types of long-term storage including consumer storage format has waned tape, hard disk and even the cloud. and sales of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Permanence is one. Put a CD, DVD continue to fall. or Blu-ray disc into an appropriate When it comes to long-term player and, regardless of its age, professional archives, however, it will work. This alone gives it an broadcasters, and other media advantage over hard disk drives companies with large archives, which, according to research* have a are increasingly turning to optical median lifespan of six years. media for warm, cold and frozen data storage.

pro.sony.eu/ODA The discs are highly durable too. In addition, in some scenarios, a For bigger archives and libraries the They can be stored in almost single piece of optical media can AD also works with the Everspan any environment and they allow be used throughout the production Library System which groups bare inter-generational compatibility chain and into long-term archive. discs together in order to provide a between different formats. This capacity of 784 petabytes. Of course, the disc is just part of the ensures that data can continue to archive. Sony has systems that can Thanks to their reliability and be read as formats evolve. Because be integrated into a broadcast or robust construction, CDs and DVDs optical media uses lasers and has news workflow so that the optical have been around since the 1980s no moving parts, it is also unlikely to media becomes a central part of a and, regardless of their popularity, break. The same cannot be said media operation. will continue to work long into of tape. the future. With the Sony Optical Disc Archive Optical discs are cheap and have (ODA) system, users benefit from By committing a media archive very low error rates. There is also a the reliability of optical discs to to optical discs, broadcasters and lot of confidence gained from having store data safely and securely, while other large media companies can valuable content in a physical form keeping archiving costs low. guarantee that their data will too. that is visible and nearby. ODA is available in various forms The question of capacity, speed and from a single standalone USB drive scalability has been answered too Find out more > that appears just like a HDD on a thanks to the introduction of the computer right up to a library option Archival Disc (AD), jointly developed that can handle 1.7 petabytes. by Sony and Panasonic. Simple to operate, reliable and The second-generation write-once allowing random access to optical disc cartridges hold 3.3TB content, it can be used for both and will work for guaranteed 100 long-term deep archive and for years. Highly scalable, they can be near-online archive. used within a single drive or as part of an enterprise data centre. www.Everspan.com Multiple HSM and MAM Partners Data centre solution from 20PB to 274PB

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