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.
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.
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.
So it is one option less to store data long term and inaccessible to covert internet surviallance, but only the plebs are restricted.
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.
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.
They used to be affordable. Nah … they used to be cheap.
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.
Yup, when you have a captive customer base, you have a lot of flexibility on pricing.
using optical media for long term storage is quite a bad idea. Especially R/RW media. They tend to (although not always) degrade quite quickly
Optical media is not long term. Hurry up to backup your DVD videos and games, before you can’t anymore.