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
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.