Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
by rwallace on Monday March 10, 2014 @07:35AM
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Well, if you're going to go to a cartridge style format, the competition is hard disks, which can store three or four terabytes each in a highly reliable form; sure, they cost more per disc, but the upfront costs are very low; I suspect the volume at which cartridges would become cheaper is larger than the market would support.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
by sspiff on Monday March 10, 2014 @08:04AM
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Hard disks are also not very good at long term storage, I believe most aren't designed to hold their magnetic charge for decades without being powered and rewritten.
Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
by rwallace on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:08AM
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Sure, but the same is true of every high-density medium. You have to either accept data storage is a dynamic process of repeated copying, or else do it the old-fashioned way and store your data on acid-free paper.
(Well, unless you want to use one of the exotic technologies that etch your data on metal plates or whatever; but in practice, paper is a lot cheaper.)