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Re:Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] by wmf on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:28PM (#7148900)
I don't think LTO is any more proprietary than Blu-ray.
Re:Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] by protomyth on Thursday January 30, 2014 @01:29AM (#7149335)
and LTO has way less licensing problems than Blu-ray and LTO-6 has a max of 2.5TB. LTO is also guaranteed to to read tapes from 2 generations earlier and write one generation earlier. Blu-ray has no such long term guarantee.