https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/scientists-just-developed-a-200000gb-optical-disc-that-could-replace-blu-rays
While traditional storage techniques use two dimensions, the new optical technology uses three and can have up to 100 layers that could be read — that equates to a 4,000-fold increase over the 3

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/
72. Optical discs that can store up to 200 TB of data could be possible with a new technology developed in China. If commercialized, it could revive optical media as an alternative to hard disk or tape for cost-effective long-term storage. Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) and Shanghai Institute of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5v-XRhnIEE
China's Official Media Report: China has successfully developed the "Super Optical Disc (CD)," achieving a major breakthrough in the field of optical storage

https://www.popsci.com/technology/optical-disk-petabit/
Even in a digital-first world, optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays still have their many uses. But despite being cheap, sturdy, and small, they can't keep up with today's storage needs. This

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/chinese-researchers-tout-optical-disk-format-with-up-to-125tb-capacity
Researchers in China have developed a super-high capacity optical disk format that is claimed to hold up to 125TB of data, reports Hong Kong's SCMP. The new disks are described as outwardly

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/new-petabit-scale-optical-disc-can-store-as-much-information-as-15000-dvds
Scientists have developed a new type of optical disc that can increase information storage capacity to the "petabit" level — 125 terabytes of data. (Image credit: Sinisa Botas/Shutterstock)

https://www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-engineers-develop-1000tb-optical-disc-100-layer-super-dvd-could-be-the-first-step-towards-exabyte-data-storage-but-challenges-still-exist
In an effort to meet the ever-growing data demands, a team of Chinese photonic engineers has developed a high-capacity optical disc capable of holding up to 200TB of data.

https://www.techspot.com/news/101974-dvd-like-optical-disc-could-store-16-petabits.html
A recently published paper explains how manufacturers could make DVD-like discs that hold the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of Blu-rays. Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-breakthrough-promises-optical-discs-that-store-hundreds-of-terabytes/ar-BB1iML1e
Optical discs that can store up to 200 TB of data could be possible with a new technology developed in China. If commercialized, it could revive optical media as an alternative to hard disk or

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06980-y
The resulting spin-coated disk was cured under ultraviolet illumination for 4 min. c, The capacity of a single 3D nanoscale disk is approximately equivalent to that of a petabit-level Blu-ray

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/02/27/096253/china-breakthrough-promises-optical-discs-that-store-hundreds-of-terabytes
China Breakthrough Promises Optical Discs That Store Hundreds of Terabytes (theregister.com) 38. Optical discs that can store up to 200 TB of data could be possible with a new technology developed in China. If commercialized, it could revive optical media as an alternative to hard disk or tape for cost-effective long-term storage.

https://english.news.cn/20240222/2074b8ed48c94e3abdb6f7a4364521e9/c.html
The new technology marks the world's first achievement of a petabit-level capacity optical disk. The research findings are expected to lead to breakthroughs in terms of the archival data storage capabilities of data centers, addressing challenges in large-capacity and energy-efficient storage technology.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/scientists-develop-petabit-optical-disc/
If your answer is around 14,000 or fewer, you may soon only need one optical disc to store them. Scientists at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have developed a new "3D

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-5d-data-storage-disc-can-store-360tb-of-data-for-14-billion-years
It's estimated that humans are producing the equivalent of 10 million Blu-ray discs' worth of data every single day - and all of those ones and zeroes have to be stored somewhere. Now researchers in the UK just might have the solution: a five-dimensional (5D) digital data disc that can store 360 terabytes of data for some 13.8 billion years.

https://www.etcentric.org/new-chinese-optical-disc-promises-petabyte-plus-of-storage/
By ETCentric Staff. February 27, 2024. Researchers at China's University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have invented an ultrahigh density optical disc format they claim can store up to 1.6 petabits — more than 1,500 terabytes, or 125,000 gigabytes — of data. While the new discs are said to look like typical Blu-rays, the data is

https://gizmodo.com.au/2024/02/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabit-optical-disk/
Researchers from Scientists from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology just figured out how to fit up to a petabit of data onto an optical disk by storing information in 3D. In

https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/02/22/china-petabit-capacity-optical-disk/
Feb 22, 2024. China has made a huge stride in technology with the creation of a new optical disk that can hold a vast amount of data—up to a petabit. The innovation comes from the smart folks at

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinese-scientists-create-worlds-most-powerful-one-petabit-optical-storage
audio is not supported! (Yicai) Feb. 22 -- A team of Chinese scientists has developed the world's biggest optical storage, equivalent to 10,000 Blu-ray discs to meet the rising demand for data storage. The Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology joined hands in the study of a

https://newtech4life.com/china-achieves-major-breakthrough-with-super-optical-disc-cd-technological-turning-point-in-storage/
Technological Milestone: The 'Super Optical Disc' is the outcome of effective collaboration between the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and the University of Science and Technology Shanghai.Its storage capacity surpasses traditional optical discs by tens of thousands of times and conventional hard drives by hundreds, setting a new industry standard.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/optical-storage-device-petabit/
In doing so, they reportedly devised a 3D nanoscale optical disk memory system capable of reaching petabit (Pb) capacity. To put this into perspective, the storage capacity of a DVD-sized disc

https://www.newsweek.com/dvd-storage-millions-movies-tech-1872746
Current DVDs only have a storage capacity of about 4.5 GB, which can contain about 2 hours of video footage. Now, however, researchers from China have developed a new type of disc that can hold up

https://petapixel.com/2024/02/29/this-super-dvd-can-hold-20-million-photos/
Scientists in China have developed a new 3D nanoscale optical disk technology that can store 20 million photos. ... Unlike a traditional optical disk like a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray, the similarly

https://www.pcgamer.com/researchers-have-developed-a-very-big-disctm-that-can-store-up-to-200-terabytes-of-data-and-may-represent-a-return-to-optical-media-for-long-term-storage/
That's a huge leap over current data centre HDD based storage systems, which generally move data over to new devices every five to 10 years to avoid data-loss from ageing drives.