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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).
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.