Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte

Re:Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to pr... by raws on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:21AM (#21067576)

In terms of longevity MDisc is king (1k years estimate). How does tape compare to drives and ssds without power? and what kind of environment is required? Someone mentioned losing 5k$ worth of tapes to temperature hike.

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Re:Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to pr... by Youden on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:18PM (#21074880)

MDisc is not king. Their DVDs were outperformed by competitors in a test done by the French National Archives [0].

Further, DVDs are effectively obsolete these days and MDisc's Blu-Rays have no scientific studies backing their claims to longevity compared to competitors like the DVDs did. One of their largest advantages relative to DVDs is completely gone in Blu-Rays as well: The inorganic dyes and recording layer (these are now standard for essentially all BD-Rs).

[0]: https://www.lne.fr/sites/default/files/inline-files/syylex-g... and full test and results in French: https://francearchives.fr/file/de7f8ea96ceb4ce38eb6d9278b3df...

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Re:Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to pr... by meshr on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:59AM (#21069258)

I can confirm that they are extremely unreliable compared with other hardware. There is also no support from vendors.

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