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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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This sounds cool but apparently it's discontinued?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Disc_Archive
https://obsoletemedia.org/optical-disc-archive/
Quick web search didn't find the drive cost but you can get LTO-6 or LTO-7 drives relatively affordably if you're into such storage. Meanwhile, more recent LTO generations seem to have shot up in price, maybe following DRAM and hard discs, ugh.
LTO is too complicated for someone like me.
Obtaining used drive is the only choice and it is still expensive... I think.
And magentic tape can store more.dafa but I think a cartridge with several optical disk is way more reliable because the data don't habe to move around a spool or something.