Information technology and society: Sony and Panasonic to jointly develop an optical disc with a capacity of 300 GB

Sony and Panasonic have concluded an agreement on cooperation in the development of optical disc with a capacity of 300 GB, said the official web site of Sony Company.

Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation have decided to join forces and their corresponding technological developments to share a common goal - to develop and launch the production of optical disc capacity of 300 GB, intended for professional use. It is reported that the company has continued negotiations on the specifications and parameters of the future format of the data record. The companies plan to complete the development of a new disc format by the end of 2015.

The main purpose of a large amount of media that have such qualities as moisture and frost resistance, the ability to withstand extremes of temperature and persist without damage, according to the company is to be the foundation for a long-term storage of information. Moreover, optical discs are capable of providing compatibility formats of different generations, even if their development over time, which makes them suitable for the conservation of information, files for many decades.

Sony has already presented a solution to create archives of large amounts of technology-based optical data in September 2012. Twelve optical disks each of 25 GB have been collected in a single compact cartridge. Based on these devices, you can create a storage ranging from 300 GB to 1.5 TB.

Panasonic has introduced the optical storage devices of Series LB-DM9 in July 2013. The device, a thickness of only 20.8 mm, contains a wealth of twelve disks of 100 GB. Up to 90 of these compact optical storages can be combined in a data base, up to 180 TB. In addition, Panasonic has used RAID-technology for data transfer rates up to 215 Mb / s in such arrays.