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by lyu07282 460 days ago
it's actually 128GB per disk (BDXL), I only know of Chinese companies announcements of 500GB optical disks last year[1], not sure if they are already deployed to some enterprise partners, it's entirely possible. Their more theoretical research goes far beyond that. [2]

There are archival storage machines similar to tape drive robots for archival storage in the Chinese market where you have hundreds of such disks in a single unit and 1PB+ per rack.

[1] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dU8QdK8w8f5qziWP0UYQuw [2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthr...