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Wayne Williams

Exclusive: Sony confirms it is killing its formidable 5.5TB cartridge storage solution — clearing the way for emerging ceramic, silica and DNA storage rivals to take its place

Sony Optical Disc Archive Cartridges.

Sony has long been a key player in digital storage technologies. The company introduced the CD in 1982, which it developed in collaboration with Philips, revolutionizing how data and music were stored and accessed. In 1995, Sony launched the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), a joint effort with Philips, Toshiba, and Panasonic. This was followed by the Blu-ray Disc in 2006, which offered even greater storage capacity suitable for high-definition video and data.

In 2014, the company, in partnership with Panasonic, came up with a new optical storage format for professionals, the Archival Disc, which could store a whopping 300GB of data.

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