wow big jump considering hologram discs been 1TB and more for years.

DVDs have demonstrated to be absolutely shit qulity for backing data up. They degrade too quickly compared to CDs. Hopefully these archive discs are better.

Again I am in the HDD camp. As drives are so cheap you can have backups of hdds on other hdds.

How's that? Portable hds pnp into anything now.

for a moment there I thought I might have to to re-buy my whole movie collection : /

You will. Movies will be in 8K format uncompressed.

Wonder how much each disc is going to cost?

It's not a question of "this or that". Every medium has its own advantages. Discs are indeed more durable (that's why they are sending them into space and not HDDs). They are also a lot cheaper. Think about it, that's 300 GB on just a piece of plastic. For an HDD you need all kinds of stuff. Such a disc should cost a few bucks in production and will get down to a few cents rather quickly. Try finding an HDD for that price. The advantages of HDDs have also been mentioned in this thread. But really, the two can coexist just fine. There's no need to argue about what's better.

Then again, this is a video games forum. I guess everything here ends up being a flame war, lol. ;)

Intranets that have been hacked all have a back door way to get in. Secure storage can be done on standalone servers. Even home servers. Discs only need to be cracked once. Servers and hd encryption can be changed at anytime.

That's a long way down the road.

Maybe there will be lossless codec before we can use uncompressed 8K(~2030).

More space (as in physical space) , can stack a few of these and store them , use the most used files as a NAS.

Same here. I can't imagine how shitty life would be with a data cap.