Locked: Sony and Panasonic announce ‘Archival Disc’, an optical disc that can store 300 GB of data

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bananaking21 on 10 March 2014

i remember reading about this last year.

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Dr.Grass on 10 March 2014

This is awesome!

You can back up literally everything you own on a few discs!

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daredevil.shark on 10 March 2014

bananaking21 said:
i remember reading about this last year.

Its "official" announcement.

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Lafiel on 10 March 2014

bucky1965 said:

Lafiel said:

bucky1965 said:
Archaic Disc? Most companies now store data on servers and cloud is improving.

and smart companies store important mid->long term data in several different ways to ensure it's safety

Servers don't need to be online. Discs degrade and can be easily stolen. Data loss is minimal on servers due to easy file transfers.

My point stands, using several different methods for data storage is the smart thing to do, trusting only one is the equivalent of gambling.

Optical discs are more durable than magnetic storages and "offline" Servers or intranets have also been hacked before (with very easy methods), so there is no reason to believe data was totally safe there. Especially 3rd party Cloud services look like an extremely juicy target as they carry so much information from various different companies and people.

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bucky1965 on 10 March 2014

daredevil.shark said:

bucky1965 said:
Archaic Disc? Most companies now store data on servers and cloud is improving.

Unless ISPs remove data cap barrier we will never have the true power of cloud.

I don't think cloud will happen for at least 10 years. But it will happen when infrastructure improves. Data caps are a different story. Sensitive data isn't suitable for cloud storage, so its a non issue.