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.
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.