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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers (www.techspot.com)
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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Listen, the idea isn't that you'll have a walkman that has every YouTube video you'll ever watch on it.

It's that you'd backup an entire fucking enterprise on one disc. Schedule it daily. Pay the support team to swap the disc out every night. Who needs infrastructure for ransomware, we got DISCS!