MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV cassettes will also be abandoned.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No, there was one next more "optical image" after Blue-rays. Archive Disc mainly used for backups in companies dealing with lots of images. Biggest one could take 2TB per disc, as much as tape drives. However, they didn't get adoption and it has been discontinued. Sadly

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Biggest one could take 2TB per disc

    I mean it's cool for a disc, but HDDs still beat that, Seagate just released a 36TB HDD to mass market, optical always lags behind on storage density and speed

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc

    Sony used Archival Disc in their Optical Disc Archive professional archival product range, and aimed to create at least a 6-TB storage medium. As of 2020, they offered 5.5 TB Optical Disc Archive Cartridges.[14][15][16]

    That limit I mentioned has nothing with the 'technological limit'. Simply enough they lost with the adoption - if the clients wanted, they would get bigger archival discs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm aware, I've done heavy research for my own mass cold archival plans.

    It's a physics problem is why it lags behind HDDs so much, and to reach that 6TB on optical it's a cartridge with literal multiple discs inside. Adoption or no, it was never going to reach storage density parity with HDDs. Hell, even SSDs are having a difficult time taking on HDDs storage density

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