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30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette
MrSeb writes "Hot on the heels of the most successful storage mediums of all time — MiniDisc and Zip disks — Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a single, one-inch-thick plastic cassette, which will have a capacity of between 300GB and 1.5TB. As far as I can tell, the main selling point of the Optical Disc Archive is, just like MiniDisc, the ruggedness of the cassettes. Optical discs themselves are fairly resistant to changes in temperature and humidity, and the cassettes are dust and water resistant. What is the use case for these 1.5TB MiniDiscs, though? In terms of pure storage capacity, tape drives are still far superior (you can store up to 5TB on a tape!) In terms of speed and flexibility, hard drives are better. If you're looking for ruggedness, flash-based storage is smaller, lighter, and can easily survive a dip in the ocean. The Optical Disc Archive might be good as extensible storage for TV PVRs, like TiVo and Sky+ — but as yet, we don't even know the cost of the system or the cassettes, and I doubt either will be cheap."
I wish everyone else would stop shoveling money at these evil people
They are, and in increasing numbers
Sony posts its worst loss ever
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-10/japan-sony-earnings/54144022/1
says it all really, treat your customers with contempt and they will make sure you cease to exist, one way or another
From TFA:
"Unless Sony can get other companies to make and sell ODA drives, though, it will probably just go the way of the MiniDisc."
Hugely popular in Asia?
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once the sony-bashing boulder has started going, there's no stopping it
True enough, but Sony built the hill.
Buying computer hardware from a company that has deliberately installed malware on their paying customers' computers is brain-dead stupid.
Free Martian Whores!
What is sad is once upon a time, before Sony became one of the media cartels, Sony products were once the height of quality. If the OLD Sony were to be the one offering this? i'd jump on in a heartbeat as we really do need a nice long term storage for consumers to replace DVDs. But this is the NEW Sony which means it will be filled to the brim with DRM crap that will make it crippled and buggy. No thanks Sony.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I would at least consider buying it, if Sony would promise not to sue me if I actually used it.
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