Sony kills off Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable
www.tomshardware.com
You better stock up on recordable Blu-ray discs if you use it for archiving your data.
    • Natanael
      1•10 months ago

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

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
        1•10 months 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.