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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 mountainRadish@lemmy.world 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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[–] mountainRadish@lemmy.world [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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