Pretty much is, they’re spending hundreds of billions on a dream (not having to pay workers) that doesn’t work, until they repurpose those datacentres to remove personal computing.
Fortunately datacentres are by design concentrated in space and therefore rather vulnerable.
Valid use case, still a significant problem.
Hmfh, usually the long repeats are CGs (or ATs)
Well, that inspires confidence.
The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer had 4KB RAM and 72KB ROM, but the code was provably correct. How the mighty have fallen.
You jest, but… likely profitable.
LG was still manufacturing burners
They’re not even making players anymore, there’s still burner stock around here and there but BDXL is EOL. More info here
Yah, I’m looking at backing up my NAS, currently use drives (RAID is not a backup). Libraries are physically huge and my needs are not that big, once the pain of the initial 25 or so is over, it’ll only be 1 every month or two. Still mulling it over, got some time, we’ll see what the market does. I have some hope WD is BSing about AI to goose the market price, and of course bubble may go boom anytime.
Pretty sure quality in BD is about the compound in the disks that actually gets ‘burned’, the organic dye ones die ~5yrs, but the metal ones are good for ~100 (it is theorized). Unfortunately AFAIK there are no burners being made anymore so it’s a bit of a dead end. Shame, 100GB is good for photos and stuff, but pretty expensive $/TB seeing as they charge like wounded bulls.
I’ve actually been looking at LTO5 as a backup option, due to potential HDD availability issues (thanks AI), lots of faffing around (I don’t want a huge library machine) but quite cheap $/TB once you get going and good longevity. Want two drives eventually though, but I can put offline backup drives into the array as needed to weather the storm.
China’s coming to eat your lunch triopoly, better make what you can before ~2028 (likely earlier for DDR4). They’re going at it hard, and all the way back up the supply chain.
‘potentially unlawful activity’ like constraining supply or letting Scam Altman corner the wafer market without any way to actually use it. South Korea could just rule that an illegal (anti-competitive) contract and the RAM / SSD crisis would likely be over, or at least significantly mitigated.