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Would you be interested in a mini-LTO drive?
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Honestly, the world is crying out for a new consumer offline backup media, hasn't been anything since BluRay. Even just whacking a USB3 onto LTO5/6 and not having it cost the earth for drive or media would sell like hot cakes.
Something a lot nicer is cooking in China (Microsoft has been sitting on it as Project Silica for years now). That looks to be a 360TB CD sized disc good for 10000+ years cold storage, currently $30K writer and $6K reader, but that was the case with CDs too once.
I can see why our corpo lords and masters wouldn't want us having a device that let us fit all of Netflix in the palm of our hands, but whoever mass produced it and brought the price down to reasonable would make an absolute fortune. Here's hoping the latter greed wins out, it doesn't seem like the drives are made with any sort of unobtianium. A new era of CD burners would be highly welcome.
If the world was crying out for it, a company would have developed a standard by now.
There may be a market, but it is the fraction of what it was 20 years ago.
yeah with how they push ClOuD StOrAgE as the next media format, it seems they are happy to store your data themselves.
Just because it's not your use case (and maybe you'd find a use if it was available), doesn't mean it's not a common one. Market opportunities get missed all the time. People have been making do with offline HDDs, which is a waste of their potential, and they're now victim to the RAMpocalypse price hike too.
Just as an example, people would probably take a lot more video with their oh so capable phones if there was somewhere to put TBs of it cheaply.
I'm not speaking to my use case, I'm speaking about the market as a whole.
You can buy an Ultra Blu-ray burner along with 100 GB discs. There are alternatives already out there on the market and it likely wouldn't be a major jump tech wise to get up to the TB range. People used to have binders full of data, this would continue that trend. Yet no one it's developing it, including Chinese tech companies.
I'm not doubting that there are use cases out there; I can even think of a use case for me. Yet, the market demand out there doesn't seem to be worth it where any company wants to take that leap.
That Sony is abandoning physical media for games when it won two generations for discs based on its gaming consoles is a giant red flag.
Sony has all sorts of other (evil) reasons. I'm saying it'd be a build it and they will come thing, as were CDs originally, it's very existence would create use cases.