Panasonic Taps Ritek to Manufacture Optical Archival Discs

Ritek Corporation announced it will begin mass producing 300GB professional-use Archival Discs for Panasonic in July.

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Translated press release follows:

Ritek Becomes Panasonic Overseas Archival Disc Production Partner

Mass production of 300GB AD discs is expected to begin in July. The only non-Japanese manufacturer outside the Panasonic Group

2018.05.07 — Taiwan’s record-based optical disc leader, Ritek Technology (2349), announced that it will become the only overseas foundry outside of Panasonic’s current group. It is expected that it will start mass production of 300GB “archive disc” Archive Disc (hereinafter referred to as “AD”) in July. It has also become the first professional optical disc manufacturer in the world to have AD production lines and technologies, besides the two major specification developers of AD archive discs. Formally entered the highest area of ​​the B2B professional market.

The Archive Disc Archive CD is a new generation of optical discs developed jointly by Panasonic and Sony for use in large-scale cloud databases. Japan’s top-end optical discs and optical disc players have injected huge technology development and resources. Since July 2013, they have jointly developed AD to make a significant contribution to global optical discs. By the end of 2015, they have completed 300 GB (single disc recording capacity). According to the standard of the optical disc, according to the press release information of the two companies, the capacity of Archive Disc will be planned to reach 1TB in the future.

For decades of secure storage requirements in large-scale (cloud) data centers, AD Archive CDs are write-once storage media that effectively prevent customers from overwriting or forging data. According to the accelerated test, the average service life of Panasonic AD is expected to be more than 100 years at a temperature of 30oC and a humidity of 70% RH. Compared with traditional media that require regular data transfer, long-lived AD archival discs have no data transfer costs, plus the ability to operate Panasonic archives at room temperature, and also significantly reduce the temperature of the computer room temperature control facilities. Electricity costs.

The large capacity, extremely high-speed access, anti-hacking, easy-to-save, and long-life of AD archive discs will greatly reduce the cost of archiving and archiving in large-scale data centers, and have become the basis for many companies and government agencies that require long-term data storage.

Pan Chuan, Director of the Panasonic Storage Media Business Development Center, said: “We are very pleased to cooperate with Ritek and become the first overseas company in the Archival Disc business. By leveraging Ritek’s technology, manufacturing capabilities and optical disc infrastructure, we will provide Archival Disc to meet the rapidly growing data center needs.

Jude said: “The data archiving system for AD large-capacity optical discs will be the best solution for decades of secure storage needs of large-scale (cloud) data centers and will be the best storage medium for replacing LTO as a data archive. , and grow faster than market expectations. Junde became the first and only overseas production partner of the Panasonic Group, and it is also the best affirmation for Jude’s many years of dedication to the deep cultivating of optical disc technology.

With the rise of the high-tech threshold for B2B professional optical disc storage market, Jude will continue to invest in the technological development of this market. In the future, it will also introduce a higher-capacity recordable optical disc technology to enable Jude to be in the B2B professional market. With Panasonic’s vast technology and business capabilities, it will create a more ambitious business outlook.