Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt’s almost certainly tape, a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs of data for cheap compared to the equivalent drive.
Blu-ray is unlikely, only quad layer BR have a decent capacity at 125GB each and quality ones are hard to find these days. Sony has even stopped making their blu ray based Optical Disk Archival system thing.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s almost certainly spare space from massive S3 disk pools that’s unused.