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

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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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