coyotino [he/him] to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 6 months agoSony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitablewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down10
arrow-up1122arrow-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] to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilink1•6 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•6 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.
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.