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C_void's question is ill formed. What do you mean by "cheap" and "permanent"? What constitutes "mass storage"? "[A]chiving" suggests durability over time, bu
by drallison 8y ago
C_void's question is ill formed. What do you mean by "cheap" and "permanent"? What constitutes "mass storage"? "[A]chiving" suggests durability over time, but how much time? What sort of access time would be acceptable?
The lede paragraph provides some context but is not explicit. What is the application contemplated?
- c_void 8y agoYou are right in that I was little explicit. Let us talk about a private persons need and let us stay at the comparison with CDs as they were available in the 90ies. In another reply I derived today's needed disk size as 1-10TB. Let us also say that the access time should suffice to be able to watch a 4k resolved movie. You say archiving suggests durability and CDs may not have the same durability as tape storages. However I would say that a cheap price would compensate a possible lack of durability, because one could easily duplicate or restore important data.