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NavinF
on April 3, 2022
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The Reliability of Optical Disks
That’s the biggest problem with optical disks. With no automation, it’s totally impractical for one person to maintain a full backup of everything they care about. 100TB is like 2000 discs plus parity.
em3rgent0rdr
on April 3, 2022
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Yeah. Though it is not difficult to build such a machine and similar machines have been around, such as CD Jukebox players and multi-disc burners.
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