Pioneer Electronics has announced that they have discovered a way to manufacture a 16-layer readable disc with a total storage capacity of 400GB on a single disc. The disc will have a 25GB storage capacity per layer which is equivalent to a single-layer Blu-Ray Disc.

The disc’s format is similar to Blu-ray, according to Pioneer, the per-layer size (25GB) and reading lens behave in a similar way, making the disc compatible with regular Blu-ray Disc Players. However, Pioneer hasn’t said when it expects to commercialize their 16-layer disc discovery.

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Edge Tech has unveiled its latest secure flash drive called the DiscGo Secure Guardian. The Guardian flash drive is a hardware encryption-secured flash drive with rugged, anodized-aluminum housing that can withstand extreme elements such as rough treatment, water, dirt, and sand. The drive has surpassed all US Government imposed rules and regulations about data encryption by using a 256-bit AES hardware encryption. The drive features dual-channel SLC flash memory, with a write speed of 16MB/s and a read speed of 25MB/s. The Guardian flash drive makes good use of complex passwords to make all the data stored inside it more secure. You cannot store any data outside of the drive’s encrypted section. The drive is designed to erase all the data stored on it after 8 failed passwords.

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