coyotino [he/him] to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 3 months agoSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1123
arrow-up1123external-linkSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comcoyotino [he/him] to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilink1•3 months agoTapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff
minus-square@barsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•3 months agoPresumably when we’re talking off-site backups we’re talking about a separate company sitting somewhere in an abandoned nuclear bunker which can justify the price of a tape drive or twenty.
Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff
Presumably when we’re talking off-site backups we’re talking about a separate company sitting somewhere in an abandoned nuclear bunker which can justify the price of a tape drive or twenty.