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Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies (www.digitaltrends.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

But how many hamster tails is that because I maybe have like 20. With maybe a few more here and there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's enough to store a high detail photo of every single man and woman posing naked in every possible position and combination of positions. And it lasts 10 years like parts of some CDs and DVDs did? Wow! Incredible!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those you'd like to see naked are usually not single

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

But if you could just get a good DVD 😜 with the right people in it. LOL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

40x and faster drives are back!

[+] [email protected] -16 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I think its still usless imo.

200TB, I can literally put this in a single S3 bucket.

Physical media in my opinion is outdated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why store data on media when you can pay the price of a sizable mortgage payment for someone else to store it for you?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You do know its much safer and much more highly available to store it in a cloud rather than a piece of plastic, right? In a cloud you get it raided on multiple sites, etc… obv. Depends on how much you pay. Dont forget that CDs in their best of best conditions had a lifetime of merely 10 years. Dont know how much this new media holds with such density…

And you do own the data, read the contracts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not saying you don't own the data, I'm saying it's more expensive than storing it yourself. Obviously it depends on the purpose and budget; if you need it to be highly available and secure, and you have thousands of dollars to direct to the project, the cloud is great. If you want to make a backup of all your DVDs that fits on a single disc, it might be overkill.

The sort of data suited to discs like this is probably pretty different than the sort of data suited to an S3 bucket. It could make a decent tertiary backup though, a local copy of your data stored on offline media can be a lifesaver.

This isn't a competing technology to the cloud, it's complimentary.

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