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Re:A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term te... by nxobject on Sunday February 15, 2026 @02:33AM (#47021759)
The tapes? Yes. The hardware, though? I'm not sure I would bet on having compatible hardware to read a particular LTO generation tape, decades from now, given how specialty the hardware already is. I don't think there's any free lunch to be had here: the storage media needs to be viable, and you have to have a recovery strategy that's equally viable as well.

EDIT – that being said, "tape as a service" does exist... it's called S3 Glacier.

Re:A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term te... by UltraSane on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:25PM (#47029332)
There will be a break even point with S3 Glacier since you have to pay for it forever vs once for your own drive and tapes.