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Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters(www.tomshardware.com)

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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Tapes themselves are cheaper but there’s also the upfront cost of the tape drive (we’re talking thousands).

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AtariDump@lemmy.world
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Agreed and was looking for this comment.

The medium is cheap but the device to read/write is pricy.

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umbraroze@kbin.social
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And that there is the real crime. It’s a real shame no one’s making a tape drive at the consumer market price point. Tapes are a hell of a lot more convenient for backups and archival than the giant weird pile of storage formats we’ve seen over years.

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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The average consumer can make do with Blu Ray.

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