You'll get a decent addition of items to the Science Shop at Ranger Stations when you turn in the disk. Although it may not be quite as good as Optical Disk C, it's still not a bad find by any means.

To grab Optical Disk A, you need to enter the Toxic Ant Hill, which is right on the border of the Snackbar area and Picnic ...

TDK's 10 layer, 320 GB Blu-ray disk is a remarkable technical feat. Too bad it will never be a commercial success. Optical is a dead end - and soon it will just be dead. Here's why.

A much-improved data density can be achieved for an estimated storage capacity of 700 TB on a 12-cm optical disk, comparable to a storage capacity of 28,000 Blu-ray disks.

Blu-ray vs optical disk There are two types of optical media in use today. The most popular by far is Blu-ray Disc Recordable (BD-R), which can write at 72MB/s and read at 54MB/s. It also supports ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

Pioneer's newest optical disc drive does more than just play Blu-rays, but will be able to burn large capacity discs as well. According to its Japanese website (via Tom's Hardware), the BDR-213JBK ...

The final result is an optical disk with a three-dimensional stack of data layers capable of holding a whopping 1 petabit (Pb) of information—that’s equivalent to 125,000 gigabytes of data.

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology. Introduced in 1985, magneto-optic (MO) media and drives are no longer manufactured.

You'll find Optical Disk B in the northernmost part of the map. It looks like it should be back in the hedge part of this area, but it isn't. Instead, it's hidden inside the spider's nest just a ...