Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format

Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by acdha on Monday March 10, 2014 @02:26PM (#7374738)

Your Glacier comparisons should include the fact that Glacier is an actively managed service with very high durability[1] – if you're buying external USB drives, you need at least two drives simply to avoid single-device failures and that's before you get to geographic separation and the software + staffing to provide regular active testing for bit-rot, not to mention some sort of software scheme to prevent data from being altered after it's been written (malware, human error, etc.)

You can definitely beat AWS on price but there's a non-trivial up front investment required unless you're comfortable skimping on the operational benefits.

1. http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ promises 99.999999999%

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by e12e on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @01:51AM (#7377674)

Of course. But you get three TB for the price of one on glacier (not surprising, considering they guarantee redundancy) with money to spare - per year of storage. So if you can archive to disk(s) and assume the disks hold for five years there's a pretty big difference in price (obviously, glacier probably will become cheaper in the years to come, but that's still a pretty big difference in the consumer spectrum -- for a business -- probably not so much).

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by acdha on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @12:45PM (#7380445)

It's definitely a significant savings if your time is free. I'd question how big the savings looks if you assumed your spare time was worth, say, $25/hour.

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