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by nigrioid 1182 days ago
I want 10TB optical media that costs $5 each.
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It’s not optical, and it’s not “fast” in any traditional sense of the word, but LTO tapes can kind of approach what you’re suggesting. I’ve seen LTO-7 tapes sell for as low as $10 on eBay sometimes, and they advertise that you can get upwards of 15TB of storage if you enable compression.

Granted, while the tapes are comparatively cheap, the tape drives very much are not…

Trick is to stick to older LTO drives with U160 SCSI. Nobody wants them.
Honestly, I'd pay $50, maybe $100 for that.
That would be something like LaserDisc with BluRay media LOL
Or BDXL with 320 layers...