• 0x0@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    We must cut all options for the end user to own anything, let’em pay subscriptions instead.

    In a SONY board meeting, probably.

    • piyuv@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      How often do you lend your drives to your friends? A cheap way to send big files without internet connection was paramount for sharing information.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Very rarely. I tend to have shared text or Excel files to actively share and work on. Nothing in the hundreds of gigs.

    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I use BD-R for archival storage of important files. They’re cheaper and easier than tape as well as small. I burn them in triplicate and throw them in the same case and as long as the same 3 bits don’t corrupt I can recover. The shelf life on a blue ray sealed and stored well is a few decades which is better than most other media.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I understand that from a business perspective, but I’m having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.

        I guess, if you’re doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.

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    4 months ago

    I really wish there was a viable alternative for physical backups. Blu-ray just doesn’t have enough storage space, tape is expensive, and hard drives need to be periodically read.

    I’ve read about holographic WORM media, but I just don’t think there’s enough consumer demand for the hardware and media to ever be as affordable as blu-ray.

    Once upon a time, I could back up all my important data to a stack of DVD-Rs. How am I supposed to back up a 100TB NAS, though? The “best” alternative is to build a second NAS for backup, but that’s approaching tape drive levels of cost.

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      4 months ago

      Checkout AWS S3 “Deep Glacier Archive”. It’s perfect for data you only “read” in recovery events, since you have to wait up to 12 hours to retrieve the data. I backup my Plex this way.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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        4 months ago

        Based on their 100T of data the .00099 per GB pricing will have them spending $99 a month, or $1200 a year, for backup.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          Yup, that’s why I don’t bother backing up media to places like S3 or B2, I only back up important stuff like family pictures and tax documents. Replacing my DVD or Bluray collection is feasible, it just costs time and money, but I can’t replace pictures and whatnot.