Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati...
by rbanffy on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:44PM
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I do not expect large-capacity optical media to become available for consumer use, but A 100GB BDXL can archive only 6 minutes of 8K video at 60 fps from a RED, so I would assume high-end visual production would want something better than 100GB per disk.
Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati...
by lastbitwritten on Sunday November 14, 2021 @06:00PM
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Sony will happily sell you ODA at 6tb per cartridge for $$$$.
I think the video production folk use LTO and HDDs for long term storage.
Everyone who still cares would like multi-terabyte optical - but it’s not a big enough market anymore outside of long term corporate archiving (the ODA use case), and Sony probably doesn’t want to canabalize that market.
Re:Optical storage – the future of long term data preservati...
by rbanffy on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:47PM
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Sony sells decks and recorders for their high-capacity "Professional Disc" that can hold up to 128GB per disk. And then there is their cartridge to compete with LTO, the ODA Gen 3 that holds, IIRC, 11 discs with a total of 5.5 TB per cartridge. A bit less than LTO-7 (and half as much as LTO-8), but I don't think LTO tapes can survive being boiled in water.
Sony ODA is a thing, and uses 11 600gb discs in a compact cartridge to give around 6tb per cartridge.