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.
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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.