LTO drives are pretty cost effective for huge archivals, but given the recent developments with everything being so expensive.
Would you be interested in a miniaturized format of LTO?
Something like a Data8 cartridge, in a shell with magent protection, so you can have a singular terabyte or less in a safe and portable size.
I could imagine it running in two modes, fast or slow, with varying storage capacities, based on use case. Maybe 256 MBps slow, and 512MBps fast, just throwing a number out there.
I can imagine some use cases:
- PS6 physical games (as installation disks)
- Backup format for power users (instead of a full fledged LTO drive)
- Recording equipment (music, video)
- Became you like the noise
- Because you want to have cassette futurism
- Physical game ownership
Edit 1: Just learned that Accelis LTO is exactly what I imagine and was abandoned by the LTO foundation. ☹️
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I get scared by cold storage since you never know when it dies. After 20 years and finding that thing you wanted who knows if it’s kicked the bucket by then?
ONLY if it’s an open standard anyone can make readers and tape for.
Especially not a fan of getting fucked over when the company randomly decides to discontinue the product line when the whole point of the product is long term data archival.
Um obviously it will depend on the cost, and tape in general these days is seen as an enterprise thing with prices to match. Are you going to make a tape drive? What about the tape?
1TB isn’t that interesting since you can get LTO-5 or LTO-6 (1.5TB or 2.5TB native) fairly affordably these days. The physical size of the cartridge isn’t that important for most of us.
