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Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Isn't that what tapes are for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but at much higher cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tapes themselves are cheaper, but the drive (and potentially operating cost?) can definitely be higher for the industrial stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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.

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