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Yeah, it's really too bad someone hasn't made a reasonably-priced archival format that consumers and small businesses can use, because LTO isn't it. The closes
by shiroiushi 2y ago
Yeah, it's really too bad someone hasn't made a reasonably-priced archival format that consumers and small businesses can use, because LTO isn't it. The closest they have is MDISC, but the storage capacity is small, and from what I'm reading, discs advertised with this aren't necessarily all that long-lived anyway (if they're using dye).
What we need is a cheap, write-once format that can hold at least 1TB, similar to how we used to use CD-Rs 20-25 years ago, but without organic dye like those discs and with a far longer shelf life.
- everfrustrated 2y agoIt's called the cloud or Backblaze. Encrypt with your own keys and let them worry about moving the data to new drives every so often.
- shiroiushi 2y agoIt's also quite expensive, at $6/TB/month. If you have a lot of data, that adds up quickly. Just for my 4TB backup drive, it's much cheaper to just use HDDs and rotate them myself.
- RecycledEle 2y agoI wonder if someone could mass-produce a BD-R type media, but the size of a laser-disc, and resistant to almost all scratching. Maybe put it in a case like the old 3.5" floppy disks had?