You aren't thinking large scale enough. This is not a drive to put into your home computer.
Toss an autoloading platter jukebox onto the front of this and you can start long term archival recording of business documents (mortgage documents > 30 years).
Hook this up to a SAN and use it for an automated migration of dormant data off of the magnetic disks. You could potentially replace tape backup drives with these (and yes, corporations still by lots of tapes and tape drives)
Throw the entire content of a movie onto this, raw footage, edited footage, etc. so that a director or studio could have the entire intellectual property on a single disk.
Regulatory compliance infomation needs long term, stable media for regulated data storage.
There are lots of things you could use this for that doesn't require the moving parts and potential magnetic scrambling risks that are associated with hard drives. It is not a general purpose item in its current state but in some situations, the cost/stability/etc. has potential.
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You aren't thinking large scale enough. This is not a drive to put into your home computer.
Toss an autoloading platter jukebox onto the front of this and you can start long term archival recording of business documents (mortgage documents > 30 years).
Hook this up to a SAN and use it for an automated migration of dormant data off of the magnetic disks. You could potentially replace tape backup drives with these (and yes, corporations still by lots of tapes and tape drives)
Throw the entire content of a movie onto this, raw footage, edited footage, etc. so that a director or studio could have the entire intellectual property on a single disk.
Regulatory compliance infomation needs long term, stable media for regulated data storage.
There are lots of things you could use this for that doesn't require the moving parts and potential magnetic scrambling risks that are associated with hard drives. It is not a general purpose item in its current state but in some situations, the cost/stability/etc. has potential.