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I’d never even heard of it, I feel like cheap large flash drives and streaming killed the main use cases for these.
I believe Blurays are still a very good medium for long term data storage, like a cold offsite backup.
Isn't that what tapes are for.
Yes, but at much higher cost.
Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff
Presumably when we're talking off-site backups we're talking about a separate company sitting somewhere in an abandoned nuclear bunker which can justify the price of a tape drive or twenty.