They want us on clouds paying for a subscription. Otherwise these cartridges which can hold terabytes and last for 50+ years would be dirt cheap like your ex.
A cabinet like device where it has an arm to change tbe cartridges, and a software/ssd to view metadada, thumbnail, video preview is all a family needs… I think
I want to preserve data but it is hard and costly.
Bonus: imagine if the software would help you pic archival grade file formats and warn you when a file format is going obsolete.
There is a cool software I use called Wincatalog.
Cuckoo out
I mean at that point why not go actually nutz and get into tape drives?
Because I believe for home use optical disc in a cartridge is easier.
*I might be wrong, but I remember LTO tape must be stored at certain RH and condition.
And they last for 30 years, maybe
And VHS tapes. Ade the idea of a tape around a spool feeels like it is not as robust as a disc.
Having said that, iffff consumer version of lto tape drives was out there it would be as cool.
But I still feel discs are more safer.
You see, I could salvage archival optical disc if I got flooded or if they went through extreme temperature.
My understanding is that tape drives are still the basic thing for long term storage, and that they are more robust for long term storage than disc drives. And way, way, way, cheaper. I used to work at a company that like, we had so many bankers boxes of hard drives laying around, we actually got in trouble with fire dept for them blocking the hallway a bit. So that could be an option, that is, hot swappable drives.
My home server is a 42 tb nas. It cost me about 1k to set up and honestly it’s been very worth it.
I think NAS is great for techies but optica disc storage is better option for family memories and stuff.
A NAS need maintenance and can get expensive.
LTO tape take a lot of care, I just read about it again.
It needs proper storage and maintenace and even then it last for 30 years.
Optical media last 50+ years and storage conditions is just normal home climate. I think for childhood memories, important documents, wedding videos is a perfect medium.
This sounds cool but apparently it’s discontinued?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Disc_Archive
https://obsoletemedia.org/optical-disc-archive/
Quick web search didn’t find the drive cost but you can get LTO-6 or LTO-7 drives relatively affordably if you’re into such storage. Meanwhile, more recent LTO generations seem to have shot up in price, maybe following DRAM and hard discs, ugh.
LTO is too complicated for someone like me.
Obtaining used drive is the only choice and it is still expensive… I think.
And magentic tape can store more.dafa but I think a cartridge with several optical disk is way more reliable because the data don’t habe to move around a spool or something.
