Optical Disc Archive

Optical Disc Archival Disc
Media type Optical disc
Capacity 300 GB, 600 GB, 1.2 TB, 1.5 TB
Developed by Sony Corporation
Usage Long-term data storage

Optical Disc Archive is a media and hardware technology that was introduced by the Sony Corporation. The technology was publicly announced [1] on 16 April 2012 during the NAB Show with the first units shipping in February 2013.

Media

Product Introduced Capacity (GB) Write Type
ODC300R 2013 300 Write-Once
ODC300RE 2013 300 Rewritable
ODC600R 2013 600 Write-Once
ODC600RE 2013 600 Rewritable
ODC1200RE 2013 1200 Rewritable
ODC1500R 2013 1500 Write-Once

Hardware

Product Introduced Category Maximum Number of Drives Number of Slots
ODS-D55U 2013 Stand Alone Drive 1 N/A
ODS-D77U 2014 Stand Alone Drive 1 N/A
ODS-L10 2013 Small Library 2 10
ODS-L30M 2014 Library Master 2 30
ODS-L60E 2014 Library Extender 4 61
ODS-L100E 2014 Library Extender 0 101

Roadmap

Generation 2 of the Optical Disc Archive technology is scheduled for mid-2016. Generation 2 will increase the cartridge capacity to 3.6TB, the read speed to 2Gbps and the write speed (with verification on) to 1Gbps.


Media Roadmap

Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation 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

References

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