@decryption not to mention this fills the need between "Self-hosted / Colocated Petabytes" and "Sketchy Filehosters" that many places may have.

• Obviously since it's their drive and their VM they'd still have some decently sized "warm offsite storage" to use in a pinch, not just for backups but like transfering and sharing data.

I'd not be surprised if small businesses would just mail-in an #ExaDrive (or similarly high-capacity, slow SSD) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLiKClKKhs

@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.

• As #Helium-filled #SMR-#HDD|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal & power envelope and price, #SSD|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.

As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...

• Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media.

That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.

• In fact #ZFS can already offer many features of #LTFS, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only #archives.

Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.

• Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the NeoFloppy and build something off it.