Panasonic Corporation recently unveiled its enhanced  “freeze-ray” series Data Archiver, using 300GB Optical Discs. Based on large-capacity optical discs, Panasonic is proposing data to complement conventional recording media for use in high-efficiency, next-generation data centres.

Panasonic’s Optical Disc-Based Data Archive System has already been adopted in corporations and public institutions that require long-term data storage. Known as  “freeze-ray,” which was developed through extensive validation and testing to be deployed in the data centers of a large-scale Cloud Service Provider in the US, was announced in January at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, as an Optical Disc-Based Data Archive System based on 100GB Blu-ray Disc.

Data centres require safe and secure data storage for decades. Panasonic’s Archival Disc meets that requirement as a WORM (Write Once Read Many) media that prevents data overwrite or data falsification along with providing an estimated lifetime of 100 years or more.

Henceforward, Panasonic plans to increase the capacity of the Archival Disc to 500GB and eventually 1TB per disc, which will enable an even larger-scale freeze-ray system, including petabyte capacity increases. With freeze-ray, Panasonic will continuously work on shaping the next-generation data center and meeting industry requirements by helping to reduce data center costs.