I wa going to suggest tape drives for long term archiving, but after looking, holy shit are they expensive for some reason. I’ve used them at work but I guess I’ve never actually seen the price tag.
I don’t even know what to say about this mess, but yes: that’s enterprise pricing. It doesn’t need to be that way, but it can be because those are the kind of prices you can charge businesses. And really, just as a pleasant capitalistic side effect of this, is that the lower classes are completely locked off form this technology. It’s not a mystery, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s business. And I hate it.
So it is one option less to store data long term and inaccessible to covert internet surviallance, but only the plebs are restricted.
using optical media for long term storage is quite a bad idea. Especially R/RW media. They tend to (although not always) degrade quite quickly
I wa going to suggest tape drives for long term archiving, but after looking, holy shit are they expensive for some reason. I’ve used them at work but I guess I’ve never actually seen the price tag.
I don’t even know what to say about this mess, but yes: that’s enterprise pricing. It doesn’t need to be that way, but it can be because those are the kind of prices you can charge businesses. And really, just as a pleasant capitalistic side effect of this, is that the lower classes are completely locked off form this technology. It’s not a mystery, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s business. And I hate it.