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I think Sony's Optical Disc Archive cartridge is the best consumer digital storage solution (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 months ago

    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.

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