coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 month agoSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down10
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comcoyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoYes, but at much higher cost.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoTapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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.
Yes, but at much higher cost.
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.