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After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wa going to suggest tape drives for long term archiving, but after looking, holy shit are they expensive for some reason. I've used them at work but I guess I've never actually seen the price tag.

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

    I don't even know what to say about this mess, but yes: that's enterprise pricing. It doesn't need to be that way, but it can be because those are the kind of prices you can charge businesses. And really, just as a pleasant capitalistic side effect of this, is that the lower classes are completely locked off form this technology. It's not a mystery, it's not a conspiracy, it's business. And I hate it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Tape is still the cheapest option for mass amounts of storage since the actual tapes are so cheap. You just need to store enough data to offset the cost of the drive. Drive cost increases very quickly the higher you go in storage density.

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